 I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why ; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die ; And one by one the heartstrings snap, As age comes on so chill ; And hope seems left that hope may cease, And all will soon be still And...  Festus: A Poem - Page 196by Philip James Bailey - 1845 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Questions and answers - 1877 - 668 pages
...MARSHALL. " An idler in the land," i¡c. Wordsworth, A Poet's Epitaph, etunza 14. VSL (5"' S. viii. 350.) " I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why ; It is Hie one great woe of life To feel all feeling die." Philip James Bailey, Feitus. Scene, "A large Pxrty... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...one by one the heartstrings snap, As age eomee on so ehill ; And hope seems left that hope may eease, And all will soon be still. And the strong passions,...Soon rage themselves to rest, Or leave a desolated ealm — A worn and wasted breast ; A heart that like the Geyser spring, Amidst its bosom snows, May... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...Wordsworth. In the human breast fwo master passions eannot eo-exist. Campbell. I eannot love u I have lov'd, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die; As one by one the heartstrings snap, As age eomes on so ehill ; And hope semis left that hope may eeам,... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - English poetry - 1862 - 406 pages
...the shroud — Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss — Ask of thyself what beauty is; And, if they oath should answer, I! Let me, too, join them with a sigh....die; And one by one the heartstrings snap, As age conies on so chill; And hope scems left that hope may cease. And all will soon be still. And the strong... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - Christian life - 1863 - 358 pages
...feeling ! Past feeling ! Not past it in the mere sentimental sense in which the poet tells us that "it is the one great woe of life to feel all feeling die ; " not past it in that mere sentimental sense in which youth has a freshness of feeling and heart... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - Presbyterian Church - 1863 - 338 pages
...feeling ! Past feeling ! Not past it in the mere sentimental sense in which the poet tells us that " it is the one great woe of life to feel all feeling die ; " not past it in that mere sentimental sense in which youth has a freshness of feeling and heart... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - Christian life - 1863 - 332 pages
...feeling ! Past feeling ! Not past it in the mere sentimental sense in which the poet tells us that " it is the one great woe of life to feel all feeling die ; " not past it in that mere sentimental sense in which youth has a freshness of feeling and heart... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1877 - 748 pages
...them with a sigh. Oh ! let me pray my life may prove, When thus, with thee, that I am love. Featus. I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not...passions, like to storms, Soon rage themselves to rest ; ( )r leave a desolated calm, A worn and wasted breast ; A heart that like the Geyser spring, Amidst... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...along. Make us the madness of their will obey, Then die, and leave us to our grief a prey.— CroWt "O 18 g-0 ; As one by one the heartstrings snap, As age comes on so chill ; And hope seems left that hope may... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1877 - 574 pages
...Poet'i Epitaph, stanza 14. VSL (5"> S. viii. 350.) " I cannot love as I have loved, Avid yet I kno\v not why ; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die." Philip James Bailey, Feslui. Scene, "A large Purly and Entertainment." VSL " When each by curs'd cabals... | |
| |
