 ROSE AYLMER AH, WHAT avails the sceptred race! Ah ! what the form divine ! What every virtue, every grace ! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.  Calendar - Page 513by University of Calcutta - 1908Full view - About this book
 | Walter Savage Landor - English literature - 1876 - 538 pages
...veins. The last and hardest lesson teaches this, Frail is our knowledge, frailer is our bliss. on. Ah what avails the sceptred -race, Ah what the form...night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee. cm. Gone ! thou too, Nancy ! why should Heaven remove Each tender object of my early love ? Why was... | |
 | Lyrics, William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 280 pages
...thought o' Mary Morison Robert Burns, LOVE'S PRAISES. ROSE AYLMF.K. AH ! what avails the sceptre d race? Ah ! what the form divine ? What every virtue,...night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee. Waller Savage Landor. CXIV. LOVES PRAISES. SIXTEEN. IN Clementina's artless mien Lucilla asks me what... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 pages
...on, play on, for then (who knows ?) Ye who play here may here repose. Ah ! what avails the sceptered race ! Ah ! what the form divine ! What every virtue,...eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and sighs I consecrate to thee. ON SOUTHEY'S DEATH. Friends, hear the words my wandering thoughts would... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 pages
...on, play on, for then (who knows?) Ye who play here may here repose. Ah ! what avails the sceptered race ! Ah ! what the form divine ! What every virtue,...eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and sighs I consecrate to thee. ON SOUTHEY'S DEATH. Friends, hear the words my wandering thoughts would... | |
 | Sidney Colvin - Authors, English - 1881 - 248 pages
...the little elegy, " carved as it were in ivory or in gems," which in its later form became famous:— Ah, what avails the sceptred race ? Ah, what the form...night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee. Just, natural, simple, severely and at the same time hauntingly melodious, however baldly or stoically... | |
 | College students' writings, Irish (English) - 1881 - 364 pages
...golden path of rays. And think 'twould lead to some bright isle of rest! |ios.e ^ THOMAS MOORE. tH ! what avails the sceptred race, Ah ! what the form...these wakeful eyes May weep but never see, A night of memory and sighs I consecrate to thee. WS LANDOR. AAKPTOEN FEAA2A2A. ne quaesieris sociem cur carmina... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...on, play on, for then (who knows ?) Yc who play here may here repose. Ah ! what avails the sceptered race ! Ah ! what the form divine ! What every virtue,...eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and sighs I consecrate to thee. ON SOUTHEY'S DEATH. Friends, hear the words my wandering thoughts would... | |
 | Shadworth Hollway Hodgson - English literature - 1881 - 432 pages
...of great beauty : " Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah, what the form divine ! What every beauty, every grace ! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer,...night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee." III. The Concord between images and sound. The nature and importance of this concord may perhaps be... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...AYLMER. Ah, what avails the sceptred race T Ah, what the form divine f What every virtue, every grace T thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me ; Voice DEATH. Death stands above me, whispering low I kuow not what into my ear: Of his strange language all... | |
 | Sidney Colvin - 1881 - 250 pages
...the little elegy, " carved as it were in ivory or in gems," which in its later form became famous: "Ah, what avails the sceptred race? Ah, what the form...every grace ? • Rose Aylmer, all were thine. " Rose Ayhner, whom these wakeful cyea May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate... | |
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