 | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland - English poetry - 1847 - 272 pages
...lose good days, that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy prince's grace, jet want her peer's ; To have thy asking, yet wait many years... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...To lose good days, that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; — To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - England - 1849 - 326 pages
...fret thy soul with crosses and with cares, To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs, To speed to-day — to be put back to-morrow — To feed on hope — to pine with fear and sorrow. SPENSER. • As Harry and Laura grew older, they were gradually treated like friends and companions... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1849 - 478 pages
...To lose good days that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To hate thy prince's grace, yet want her peers' ; To have thy asking, yet wait many years... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...lose good days, thai might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontenl ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy princess' grace, yet wanl her peers' ; To have thy asking, yet wait many years... | |
 | Robert Ellis (F.L.S.) - 1850 - 548 pages
...To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To fret their souls with crosses and with cares; To eat their hearts, with comfortless despairs:... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd - 1845 - 654 pages
...lose good dayes, that might be better spent : To wast long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed rivate lack. And with vaine vowes do often call him back. But li feare and sorrow , To have thy Princes grace, yet want her Peeref; To have thy asking, yet walte manie... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...To lose good days that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers'; To have thy asking, yet wait many years ;... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...To lose good days that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers'; To have thy asking, yet wait many years ;... | |
 | Robert Gibbes Barnwell - American literature - 1851 - 416 pages
...bide) To lose good days that might be better spent, To pass long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To fret thy soul with crosses and with care, To eat thy heart through comfortless despair;... | |
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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear... 
