Seeking a higher object. Love was given, Encouraged, sanctioned, chiefly for that end: For this the passion to excess was driven That self might be annulled: her bondage prove The fetters of a dream, opposed to love. Prolusiones - Página 2por Marlborough coll - 1867Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1865 - 448 páginas
...love." Aloud she shrieked ! for Hermes reappears ! Round the dear Shade she would have clung, — 't is vain : The hours are past, — too brief had they...through the portal takes his silent way, And on the palace-floor a lifeless corse she lay. Thus, all in vain exhorted and reproved, She perished ; and,... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 páginas
...bondage prove The fetters of a dream, opposed to love." Aloud she shrieked ! for Hermes reappears ! Round the dear shade she would have clung,— 'tis vain...And on the palace floor a lifeless corse she lay. Thus, all in vain exhorted and reproved, She perished ; and, as for a wilful crime, By the just gods,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1866 - 508 páginas
...dream, opposed to love." Aloud she shrieked ! for Hermes reappears ! Round the dear shade she wouldhave clung — 'tis vain! The hours are past, — too brief...years ; And him no mortal effort can detain : Swift, tow'rd the realms that know no earthly day, He through the portal takes his silent way — And on the... | |
| English poetry - 1867 - 336 páginas
...bondage prove ta of a dream, opposed to love." 150 Aloud she shriek'd ! for Hermes re-appears ! Round the dear Shade she would have clung — 'tis vain...years ; And him no mortal effort can detain : Swift, towards the realms that know not earthly day, He through the portal takes his silent way, 156 And on... | |
| William Lucas Collins - 1870 - 212 páginas
...for Hermes reappears; Round the dear shade she would have clung—'tis vain, The hours are past—too brief, had they been years ; And him no mortal effort...through the portal takes his silent way, And on the palace-floor a lifeless corse she lay. " By no weak pity might the gods be moved ; She who thus perished,... | |
| Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 104 páginas
...prove The fetters of a dream, opposed to love.' . . . Aloud she shrieked ! for Hermes reappears ! Round the dear shade she would have clung— 'tis vain :...years ; And him no mortal effort can detain. Swift, towards the realms that know no earthly day, He through the portal takes his silent way, And on the... | |
| Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 104 páginas
...brief had they been years ; And him no mortal effort can detain. Swift, towards the realms that know no earthly day, He through the portal takes his silent...And on the palace floor a lifeless corse she lay. She — who, though warned, exhorted, and reproved, Thus died, from passion desperate to a crime —... | |
| William Lucas Collins - 1870 - 204 páginas
...grnvpg the society of_her .dead husband Sichseus. * " Aloud she shrieked ! for Hermes reappears ; Round the dear shade she would have clung— 'tis vain, The hours are past — too brief, hqd they been years ; And him no mortal effort can detain : Swift, toward the realms that know not... | |
| Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 420 páginas
...Hermes reappears! Round the dear shade she would have clung—'tis vain : The hours are past—too brief had they been years ; And him no mortal effort can detain. He through the portal takes his silent way, Swift, towards the realms that know no earthly day, And... | |
| William Lucas Collins - 1871 - 210 páginas
...Sichseus. * " Aloud she shrieked ! for Hermes reappears ; Round the dear shade she would have chin;* -'tis vain, The hours are past — too brief, had...through the portal takes his silent way, And on the palace-floor a lifeless corse she lay. " By no weak pity might the go. Is be moved ; She who thus perished,... | |
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