| Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1899 - 396 pages
...For, lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. 20 But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, 25 Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song ; then... | |
| Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English poetry - 1899 - 392 pages
...For, lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. *o But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, 25 Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song ; then... | |
| Robert Forman Horton - Poets, English - 1900 - 358 pages
...might take it into my system and rejoice abundantly; but as Marvell says : ' At my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity,' where most of us will be left and swallowed up." While everyone is thinking of him as the brilliant... | |
| Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 452 pages
...recherches. — QUETELKT, .S«rt Homme, Tom. II. p. 826. VOL. II. — 16 But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near ; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. MABVELL, '/".. kit Coy Mittreu. ORATION, FROM opposite parts of the country, from various schools of... | |
| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...heart. For, Lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song: then worms... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1902 - 358 pages
...whole earth is a point, and how small a nook in it is this thy dwelling." But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.—To his Coy Mistress. LXXIV 1-4. Few who have looked on the dead could have failed to notice... | |
| Stephen Lucius Gwynn - Authors, English - 1904 - 452 pages
...heart. For lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song : then worms... | |
| Augustine Birrell - Fiction - 1905 - 258 pages
...these lines in the Essays of Elia (The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple). But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor in thy marble vault shall sound My echoing song ; then worms... | |
| Sherwin Cody - American poetry - 1905 - 628 pages
...heart. For, Lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault shall sound My echoing song : the worms... | |
| City and town life - 1905 - 408 pages
...heart. For, lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor in thy marble vault shall sound My echoing song ; then worms... | |
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