| John Mason Good - 1831 - 482 Seiten
...delighted measure 1 SUII it whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance liail. Still would her touch the strain prolong, And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, Shecall'd on Echo still through nil the sons. Anrf where her sweetest theme she chore, A soft responsive... | |
| Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 Seiten
...hurried hand the strings. 4. With woful measures wan Despair, In sullen sounds his grief beguil'd — 5. But thou, O Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy...prolong ; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, 0 She called on Echo still through all her song : And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft- responsive... | |
| John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 Seiten
...his grief beguiled; A solemn, strange, and mingled air; 'Twas sad, by fits — by starts, 'twas wild. But thou, O Hope! with eyes so fair, What was thy...pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail. 5. Still would her touch the strain prolong; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She call'd on... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...wild! But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail...prolong; And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She called on Echo still, through all the song; And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 Seiten
...beguiled ; A solemn, strange, and mingled air : 'Twas sad, by fits — by starts, 'twas wild. But thou, 0 Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail. Still would her touch the... | |
| Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 Seiten
...his grief beguil'd ; A solemn, strange, and mingled air ; 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. But thou, O Hope ! with eyes so fair, What was thy...rocks, the woods, the vale, She call'd on Echo still through all the song ; And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was heard at... | |
| 1910 - 542 Seiten
...sounds, his grief beguiled; A solemn, strange, and mingled air, 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whisper'd promised pleasure And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong:... | |
| William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 1334 Seiten
...sounds his grief beguiled; A solemn, strange, and mingled air; 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong;... | |
| Anna Callender Brackett - 1909 - 374 Seiten
...sounds his grief beguiled, A solemn, strange, and mingled air, 'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whispered promised pleasure And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail I Still would her touch the... | |
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