 Comfort ? comfort scorn'd of devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on...  Macaulay - Page 25by Richard H. Horne - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dend unhappy night, when the rain is on the roof. Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - Agriculture - 1879 - 1154 pages
...circumstances depicted in that miserybreathing line from the Poet Laureate's pen, of which the scene is laid " in the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof." It would be easy to mention many instances in which the horses exhibited at Kilburn showed their susceptibility... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof. Like a do;, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, When the dying night-lamp flickers, and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the ram is on the roof. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, Where the dying... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, When the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee,... | |
 | Thomas Powell - Authors, English - 1849 - 326 pages
...loveliness and her falsehood, by the memory of their former happiness, says that such a memory is a crown of sorrow — " Drug thy memories lest thou...heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, when the rain is on the roof, Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 pages
...devils! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To thy widow'd marriage-pillows,... | |
 | Religion - 1850 - 454 pages
...dead unhappy night, and when the rain i on the roof. lie i dog he hnnti in dram, and thon art flaring at the wall. Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand &hall paai before thee, pointing to his drankrn •Wp, To thy widowed marriage-pillow, to the tears... | |
 | 1850 - 498 pages
...that such a memory is the very crown of sorrow : "Drag thy memories, lest thoo learn it, list tliy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain i on the roof. Like a dog he hunts in dreams, anil tliou art .'taring at the wall. Where the dying... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 290 pages
...devils! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To thy widowed marriage-pillows,... | |
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