| English poetry - 1867 - Počet stránok 336
...could not but love ; 215 Was faithless — and I am undone ! SHENSTONB. I WISH I WAS WHERE ANNA LIES. I WISH I was where Anna lies ; For I am sick of lingering...humble bier." I wish I could ; for when she died, 6 I lost my all ; and life has proved, Since that sad hour, a dreary void, A waste unlovely and unloved.... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1871 - Počet stránok 378
...master's hand and voice, seems to shuffle along, as if it experienced a share of his despondency. " I wish I could ! For, when she died, I lost my all ; and life has proved, Since that sad hour, a dreary void, A waste unlovely and unloved." What a difference throughout... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - Počet stránok 782
...hatches, His soul is gone aloft. Charles Dibdin.—Born 1745, Died 1814. 1141.— THE GRAVE OF ANNA. generous heat; The firm flit breast which fit and...ill, or flowery false Deceit. Yet nursed with skill, proved Since that sad hour a dreary void ; A waste unlovely and unloved. But who, when I am turn'd... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - Počet stránok 860
...— which will be read and remembered when his other writings are forgotten. The Сгагч of Anna. : Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And proved Since that sad hour a dreary void ; A waste unlovely and unloved. But who, when I am turned... | |
| Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1876 - Počet stránok 938
...attached, over whose grave, in Ashburton churchyard, he uttered the pathetic lament, beginning — " I wish I was where Anna lies ; For I am sick of lingering...! For, when she died, I lost my all ; and life has proved, Since that sad hour, a dreary void, A waste unlovely and unloved." * Let us, without disguising... | |
| Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1876 - Počet stránok 934
...attached, over whose grave, in Ashburton churchyard, he uttered the pathetic lament, beginning — " I wish I was where Anna lies ; For I am sick of lingering here ; And every hoar affection cries, ' Go and partake her humble bier.' I wish I could ! For, when she died, I lost... | |
| Laurel - 1879 - Počet stránok 438
...the living tone From the marble pale ? Stanzas ON THE DEATH OF AN EARLY FRIEND. BY WILLIAM GIFFORD. I WISH I was where Anna lies, For I am sick of lingering here ; And every hour Affliction cries, " Go and partake her humble bier !" I wish I could ! for when she died I lost my... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - Počet stránok 824
...ultimately to his country — which will be read and remembered when his other writings are forgotten. TJx I wish I was where Anna lies. For I am sick of lingering here • And every hour affection cnes. Go nnd partake her humble bier. * I wish I could 1 For when ehe died, I lost my all ; and life... | |
| Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - Počet stránok 744
...Themselves to equal indigence may bring. CCLIII. WILL. GIFFORD, 1756—1826. I WISH I WAS WHEBE ANNA LIES. I wish I was where Anna lies, For I am sick of lingering...; for when she died, I lost my all ; and life has proved, Since that sad hour, a dreary void, A waste unlovely and unloved. But who, when I am turn'd... | |
| English poets - 1889 - Počet stránok 596
...show considerable simplicity snd beauty. He died in London, on 31st December 1826 THE GRAVE OF ANNA. I WISH I was where Anna lies, For I am sick of lingering here ; And every hour aft'ection cries, Go and partake her humble biei. WILLIAM GIFFORD. 331 I wish I could ! For when she... | |
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