 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1866 - 370 pages
...and cold as they. But death is the worst that comes of thee ; Thou art fed with our dead, O mother, O sea, But when hast thou fed on our hearts ? or when, Having given us love, hast thou taken away ? O tender-hearted, O perfect lover, Thy lips are bitter, and sweet thine heart. The hopes that hurt... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1867 - 340 pages
...and cold as they. But death is the worst that comes of thee ; Thou art fed with our dead, O mother, O sea, But when hast thou fed on our hearts ? or when, Having given us love, hast thou taken away ? O tender-hearted, O perfect lover, Thy lips are bitter, and sweet thine heart. Tne hopes that hurt... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1883 - 392 pages
...and cold as they. But death is the worst that comes of thee ; Thou art fed with our dead, O mother, O sea, But when hast thou fed on our hearts ? or when, Having given us love, hast thou taken away ? O tender-hearted, O perfect lover, Thy lips are bitter, and sweet thine heart. The hopes that hurt... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1883 - 662 pages
...they. But death is the worst that comes of thee ; Thou art fed with our dead, O mother, O Sea ! Hut when hast thou fed on our hearts? or when, Having given us love, hast thou taken away? O tender-hearted, 0 perfect lover ! Thy lips are bitter, and sweet thine heart. The hopes that hurt,... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1885 - 356 pages
...and cold as they. But death is the worst that comes of thee ; Thou art fed with our dead, O mother, O sea, But when hast thou fed on our hearts ? .or when, Having given us love, hast thou talten away ? ,» ^_ --», O tender-hearted, O perfect loverj' Thy lips are bitter, and sweet thine... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1887 - 390 pages
...and cold as they, But death is the worst that comes of thee ; Thou art fed with our dead, O mother, O sea, But when hast thou fed on our hearts ? or when, Having given us love, hast thou taken away ? O tender-hearted, 0 perfect lover, Thy lips are bitter, and sweet thine heart. The hopes that hurt... | |
 | Mary Virginia Plattenburg Edwards - 1889 - 448 pages
...cold as they; But deflth is the worst that comes of thee; Thou art fed with our dead , O Mother, O sea, But when hast thou fed on our hearts? or when....There is a gulf in the sky and a gulf in the ocean, and all between is the freighted bark, having frail things, and beautiful things for cargo and ballast,... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1889 - 344 pages
...cold as they. But death is the worst that conies of thee; Thou art fed with our dead, O mother, O sen, But when hast thou fed on our hearts ? or when, Having given us love, hast thou taken away ? O tender-hearted, O perfect lover, Thy lips are bitter, and sweet thine heart. The hopes that hurt... | |
 | May Hunt - 1898 - 460 pages
...blither than spring's" (A Swimmer's Dreara) . Men call her cruel, "Thou art fed with our dead,0 mother, 0 sea, But when hast thou fed on our hearts? or when Having given us love, hast thou token away?" The Triumph of Time. The highest praise for England is that she is sublime as her sea... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1904 - 352 pages
...and cold as they. But death is the worst that comes of thee ; Thou art fed with our dead, O mother, O sea, But when hast thou fed on our hearts ? or when, Having given us love, hast thou taken away ? O tender-hearted, O perfect lover, The hopes that hurt and the dreams that hover, Shall they not... | |
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Fair mother, fed with the lives of men, Thou art subtle and cruel of heart, men say; Thou hast taken, and shalt not render again; Thou art full of thy dead, and cold as they. But death is the worst that comes of thee; Thou art fed with our dead, O Mother,... 
