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" THERE are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again. We are stronger, and are better, Under manhood's sterner reign: Still we feel that... "
Crowding Memories - Page 11
by Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich - 1920 - 295 pages
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...the good that falls to thee ! •Tis all in a lifetime! RICHARD HENRY STODDARD. THE FLIGHT OF YOUTH. THERE are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: Bnt when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again. We...
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The Guardian, Volumes 6-7

Conduct of life - 1855 - 902 pages
...A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing shall take heart again. NOON AND MORNING. BY RH 8TODDARD. THERE are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pains ; But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes...
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Songs of Summer

Richard Henry Stoddard - 1857 - 252 pages
...God's children ! thus your fortune prize, Be edified, and feaft jour eyes.'" GOETHE. SONGS OF SUMMER. THERE are gains for all our losses, There are balms...something from our hearts, And it never comes again. We are ftronger, and are better, Under manhood's fterner reign : Still we feel that something sweet...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 5; Volume 26

1858 - 518 pages
...to Patsy Allin, yo sister Betsy and Fanny and all. Yo fren and cussin, Mozis ADDUMS. POET-ORACLES. There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain. [RH Stoddard. Though the poet's silver numbers, Sweet as chime of fairy bells, Soothe our doubts to...
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Poems of Youth

Aesthetics - 1861 - 144 pages
...increase, That Wisdom's ways are pleasantness and peace. Jane Taylor. THERE ARE GAINS FOR ALL OCR LOSSES. THERE are gains for all our losses — There are balms...something from our hearts, And it never comes again. We are stronger, and are better, Under manhood's sterner reign ; Still we feel that something sweet...
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Moral and Religious Quotations from the Poets: Topically Arranged ...

Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...belong, When, mute and cold, we weep departed bliss, And hope expires on broken happiness. ANONYMOUS. There are gains for all our losses, There are balms...something from our hearts, And it never comes again. Something beautiful is vanished, And we sigh for it in vain; We behold it everywhere, On the earth,...
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Festival of Song: A Series of Evenings with the Poets

Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...comes, Poor month ! with tears of pain ; For what can one so hopeless do But weep, and weep again ? There are gains for all our losses, there are balms...something from our hearts, And it never comes again. We are stronger, and are better, under manhood's sterner reign : Still we feel that something sweet...
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Mosaics of Human Life

Elizabeth A. Thurston - Quotations - 1866 - 320 pages
...when he hears himself seriously called old for the first time. OW Holmes. IT NEVER COMES AGAIN. SPHERE are gains for all our losses, There are balms for...something from our hearts, And it never comes again. We are stronger, we are better, Under manhood's sterner reign; Still we feel that something sweet Followed...
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The Solitudes of Nature and of Man: Or, The Loneliness of Human Life

William Rounseville Alger - Loneliness - 1867 - 420 pages
...rarely known after youth has ended, except by natural poets, romantic souls, remaining ever young. When youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again. In dismal contrast with this there is a disenchanted solitude, in which all the genial aspects of society...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...he cannot this ; — E'en now that nameless kiss I feel. WASHINGTON ALLSTON. IT NEVER COMES AGAIN. THERE are gains for all our losses, There are balms...something from our hearts, And it never comes again. We are stronger, and are better, Under manhood's sterner reign ; Still we feel that something sweet...
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