 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ;4 The tear forgot... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...liberty, Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing, when possest, ; The tear forgot... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry ; Still, as they run, they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possessed ; The tear forgot... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...liberty, Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...; Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, — Less pleasing when possess'd ! The tear... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...constraint Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay Hope is theirs, by Fancy fed, Less pleasing, when possest; The tear forgot... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 470 pages
...liberty, Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest ; The tear forgot... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is their's — by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possest; The tear forgot... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1853 - 200 pages
...: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry : Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind. And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear forgot... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 pages
...murm'ring labours ply 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. less pleasing when possess'd; The tear forgot as soon as shed, Gay hope is theirs... | |
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Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. 
