 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
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 862 pages
...here may here repose. Ah ! what avails the sceptered race 1 Ah ! what the form divine ! What evefy virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine....eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and sighs ON SOUTHEY'S DEATH. Friends, hear the words my wandering thoughts would say And cast them into... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1894 - 414 pages
...what the form divine * What every virtue, every grace t Rose Aylmer, all were thine I VOL. II. 2 A Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but...night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee." Separate fragments of this letter are given in Forster's Lift of Laiidor. There we also learn that... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 388 pages
...notice shall engage. He who hath brav'd Youth's dizzy heat Dreads not the frost of Age. ROSE AYLMER AH what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form...night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee. ROSE AYLMER'S HAIR, GIVEN BY HER SISTER BEAUTIFUL spoils ! borne off from vanquish'd death ! Upon my... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 pages
...dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar? ROSE AYLMER. Walter Savage Landor. AH what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form...night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee. RICH AND POOR. From THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. John Ruskin. Now this distinction between rich and poor... | |
 | American periodicals - 1895 - 850 pages
...romantic charm must certainly be placed the two stanzas to Rose Aylmer by Walter Savage Landor : — Ah, what avails the sceptred race, Ah, what the form...night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee. Subtle as the smell of primroses, delicate as the hues of the cherry blossom, tender as spring's first... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 422 pages
...golden gates Clad in light the Spirit waits To embrace me in the sky. Walter Savage Lander ROSE AYLMER Ah, what avails the sceptred race ! Ah, what the form...virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. LANDOR • ROSSETTI Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...before us! How many prompters! what a chorus! (1. 5—8) EnRP; NBLV; NoP; OxBoLi; OxBSP Rose Aylmer 15 룂 ! ހ ו (1. 5—8) AWP; BoLoP; CH; ELP; EnLoPo; EnRP; FaFP; GBL; HAP; HelP; HoPM; LiTB; NAEL-2; NOBE; NoP;... | |
 | James J. Novak - History - 1993 - 256 pages
...died in 1800 and of whom Walter Savage Landor wrote his classic poem. Ah what avails the sceptered race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue,...night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee. Indeed, her memory is the most human touch the British left in Park Street Cemetery. For it is a place... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...literature, as in his replacing with "night" the expected "life" in a "night of memories. " ROSE AYLMER Ah what avails the sceptred race! Ah what the form...night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee. Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) A native of Glasgow who became a literary lion in London, immensely popular... | |
 | Henry Elmsley Busteed - Calcutta (India) - 1999 - 398 pages
..." Ah, what avails the sceptered race ? Ah, what the form divine ? What every virtue, every grace 1 Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these...night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee." "Just, natural, simple, severely and at the same time hauntingly melodious," these, adds Professor... | |
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