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" 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 513
by University of Calcutta - 1908
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The Letters of Charles Lamb: Newly Arranged, with Additions, Volume 2

Charles Lamb - 1888 - 408 pages
...lady's name, and its repetition in the second stanza : — • " Ah ! what avails the sceptred Race Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs 1 consecrate to thee." Separate fragments of this letter are given in Forster's Life of Landor. There...
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Lyria Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Specimens of Vers de ...

Frederick Locker-Lampson - English poetry - 1889 - 406 pages
...never been sigh'd on by any but mine ! " Thomas Moore. cccxvi. AH ! what avails the sceptred race, Ah I what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace...night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee. CCCXVII. AN ITALIAN SONG. DEAR is my little native vale. The ringdove builds and murmurs there ; Close...
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Studies in Letters and Life

George Edward Woodberry - English poetry - 1890 - 320 pages
...the memory of Lamb's fondness for it. Familiar as it is, it would be unjust not to quote it : — " Ah, what avails the sceptred race ! Ah, what the form...thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, hut never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee." Ordinarily, however, Landor...
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Studies in Letters and Life

George Edward Woodberry - English poetry - 1890 - 318 pages
...the memory of Lamb's fondness for it. Familiar as it is, it would be unjust not to quote it: — " Ah, what avails the sceptred race ! Ah, what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Bose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night...
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Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Social and Occasional ...

Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - English poetry - 1891 - 452 pages
...fled for ever, And all the rest shall smile no more ! CCLXXX. Matthew G. Lewis. ROSE A YLMER. All ! what avails the sceptred race ! Ah ! what the form...night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee. Walter Savage Landoi A RING to me Cecilia sends— And what to show ?—that we are friends ; That...
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Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Social and Occasional ...

Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - English poetry - 1891 - 458 pages
...fled for ever, And all the rest shall smile no more ! Matthew G. Leivis. CCLXXX. ROSE A YLMEK. AH I what avails the sceptred race ! Ah ! what the form...thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, hut never see, A night oi memories and oi sighs I consecrate to thee. Walter Savage Lmidoi CCLXXXt....
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 82

Literature - 1891 - 1038 pages
...death of Rose in far-off Calcutta was a great blow to Landor. Here is only a part of his famous elegy: "Ah, what avails the sceptred race? Ah, what the form...Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eves May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee." Charles Lamb...
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Indika: The Country and the People of India and Ceylon

John Fletcher Hurst - India - 1891 - 904 pages
...death of Rose in far-off Calcutta was a great blow to Landor. Here is only a part of his famous elegy : "Ah, what avails the sceptred race? Ah, what the form...virtue, every grace ? Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Ayliner, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate...
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The Blue Poetry Book

Andrew Lang - Children's poetry - 1891 - 816 pages
...Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell ; Hark ! now I hear them— Ding, Dong, Bell. SHAKESPEARE. ROSE AYLMER AH ! what avails the sceptred race, Ah ! what the...virtue, every grace ! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Bose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate...
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Indika: The Country and the People of India and Ceylon

John Fletcher Hurst - India - 1891 - 844 pages
...of Rose in far-off Calcutta was a great blow to Landor. Here is only a part of his famous elegy : " Ah, what avails the sceptred race ? Ah, what the form...every virtue, every grace ? Rose Aylmer, all were thiue. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes Hay weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs...
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