 | Bengal (India) - 1851 - 506 pages
...wife, mother and friend. Long will she remain remembered with fond affection. О best of wives, О dearer far to me than when thy virgin charms were yielded to my arms ; How can my soul endure the loss of thee. (But for your lovely pledges) Yes, my Anna, thy breast was the mansion... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...praise, In life's and glory's freshest bloom, Death came remorseless on, and sunk her to the tomb. O best of wives ! O dearer far to me Than when thy virgin charms Were yielded to my arms ! How can my soul endure the loss of thee ? How in the world, to me a desert grown, Abandon'd and alone, Without... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 360 pages
...you doubly owe! Now she, alas! is gone, From folly and from vice their helpless age to save? 0 best of wives! O dearer far to me Than when thy virgin charms Were yielded to my arms : How can my soul endure the loss of thee ? How in the world, to me a desert grown, Abandoned and alone, Without... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 362 pages
...she, alas! is gone, From folly and from vice their helpless age to save? # * * * O best of wives! 0 dearer far to me Than when thy virgin charms Were yielded to my arms: How can my soul endure the loss of thee ? How in the world, to me a desert grown, Abandoned and alone, Without... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...she crown your mutual flame With pledges dear, and with a father's tender name. О best of wives ! О ealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish or may fade : soul endure the loss of thee? How in the world, to me a desert grown, Abandon'd and alone, Without... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 pages
...doubly owe! Now she, alas! is gone, From folly and from vice their helpless age to save? * * * * 0 best of wives! O dearer far to me Than when thy virgin charms Were yielded to my arms: How can my soul endure the loss of thee? How in the world, to me a desert grown, Abandoned and alone, Without... | |
 | Ernest Alfred Vizetelly - Love - 1915 - 396 pages
...gave expression to his grief in a long Monody, from which we will venture to quote a passage : 'O best of wives ! O dearer far to me Than when thy virgin charms Were yielded to my arms : How can my soul endure the loss of thee ? How in the world, to me a desert grown, Abandoned and alone, Without... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...doubly owe, Now she, alas ! is gone, From folly, and from vice, their helpless age to save? O best of wives ! O dearer far to me Than when thy virgin charms How in the world, to me a desart grown, Abandon'd, and alone, Without my sweet companion can I live... | |
| |
With pledges dear, and with a father's tender name. O best of wives ! O dearer far to me Than when thy virgin charms Were yielded to my arms, How can my soul endure the loss of thee? 
