 Maturer Manhood now arrives, And other thoughts come on, But with the baseless hopes of Youth Its generous warmth is gone ; Cold calculating cares succeed, The timid thought, the wary deed, The dull realities of truth ; Back on the past he turns his eye,...  Minor Poems, Ballads, and Joan of Arc - Page 368by Robert Southey - 1858 - 469 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...sigh, The happy dreams of youth . So reaehes he the latter stage Of this our mortal pilgrimage, Wilh feeble step and slow; New ills that latter stage await, And old experienee learns too late, That all is vanity below. Southey's Poems. Onee in the flight of ages past,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1809 - 292 pages
...thought, the wary deed, The dull realities of truth. Back on the past he turns his eye, Remembering, with an envious sigh, The happy dreams of Youth. So...remembers, with a sigh, The days that are no more. WKSTBURY, 1798. THE SOLDIER'S WIFE. DACTYLICS. WEARY way-wanderer, languid and sick at heart, Travelling... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1860 - 278 pages
...thought, the wary deed, The dull realities of truth. Back on the past he turns his eye, Remembering, with an envious sigh, The happy dreams of Youth. So...he the latter stage Of this our mortal pilgrimage, New ills that latter stage await, And old Experience learns too late That all is vanity below. Life's... | |
 | 1866 - 288 pages
...thought, the wary deed, The dull realities of truth. Back on the past he turns his eye, Remembering, with an envious sigh, The happy dreams of Youth. So...he the latter stage Of this .our mortal pilgrimage, New ills that latter stage await, And old Experience learns too late That all is vanity below. Life's... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...LUTES, 8-7. (Couplets, suspended and alternate rhymes.) So reaches he the latter stage Of this crar mortal pilgrimage With feeble step and slow ; New...age remembers with a sigh The days that are no more. — SOUTHEY. 55. — STANZA OF TEN LINES, 8-6. (Alternate, couplets, and suspended.) To each his sufferings... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1868 - 328 pages
...Remembering with an envions sigh The happy dreams of Yonth. So reaches he the latter stage Of this onr mortal pilgrimage, With feeble step and slow ; New...learns too late That all is vanity below. Life's vain delnsions are gone by, Its idle hopes are o'er, Yet Age remembers with a sigh The days that are no... | |
 | Arthur Clifford (fict.name.) - 1869 - 392 pages
...SCENE. " So reaches be the latter stage Of this our mortal pilgrimage With feeble steps and alow ; New ills that latter stage await, And old experience learns too late That all is vanity below." SOUTHEY. HOW, when, and where do we find our old friends, after the lapse of two years and a half,... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pages
...Remembering, with an envious sigh, The happy dreams of youth. 210 DISCO^TKÎOT?. DISCONTENT. So Teaches hopes are o'er ; Yet age remembers, with a sigh, The days that are no more. Robert Southey. 875. DISCONTENT... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...thought, the wary deed, The full realities of truth ; Back on the past he turns his eye, Remembering, d warn'd the sinner with becoming zeal ; But on eternal...fear but freezes minds : but love, like heat, Exhales — Southey. 2390. MAN: immortal. Whate'er of earth is form'd, to earth returns Dissolved : the various... | |
 | James Ridgway (B.D.) - 1878 - 214 pages
...turns his eye, Remembering with an envious sigh The happy dreams of youtli. So reaches he the later stage Of this our mortal pilgrimage, With feeble step and slow; New ills that later stage await, And old experience learns too late That all is vanity below. Life's vain delusions... | |
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