 Comfort? comfort scorned 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...  Poems - Page 100by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 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...before thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To thy widowed marriage-pillows, to the tears that thou wilt weep. Thou shall hear the " Never, never," whispered... | |
 | 1882 - 812 pages
...this is truth the poet sings. That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug tny memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put...before thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To thy widowed marriage-pillows, to the tears that thou wilt weep. Thou shall hear the " Never, never," whispered... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - 1885 - 786 pages
...devila ! 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...dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof. Let me at once say that I loved Julian Forrester as only deep, passionate natures capable of an intensity... | |
 | 1882 - 578 pages
...remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, Like a dog, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp nickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1883 - 740 pages
...lest thy hejrt be put to proof, • » >• In the dead unhappy night, when the rain is on the roof. a dog, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at...night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall. :'hen a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, » \ To thy widow'd marriage pillows,... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1904 - 942 pages
...devils! this is truth the poet sings. That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. lake a dog. he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, \Vherc the dying night-lamp flickers,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1904 - 504 pages
...adifferent purport, in Locksley Hall— Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be brought to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof. Mr. Pretor compares Thomson's Seasons (Winter), 92— Nor recks the storm that blows Without and rattles... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 306 pages
...devils! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. 76 Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart...night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall. 8o Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To thy widow'd marriage-pillows,... | |
 | 1907 - 252 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...before thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To thy widowed marriage-pillows, to the tears that thou wilt weep. Thou shalt hear the "Never, never," whispered... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 608 pages
...devils 1 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...shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before tb.ee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To thy widow'd marriage-pillows, to the tears that thou wilt... | |
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