 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1843 - 516 pages
...truth I know not why, Or wherefore, I am sad. SOLITUDE. IT is not that my lot is low, Thai bids toe silent tear to flow ; It is not grief that bids me moan, It is that I art all alone. In woods and glens I love to roam, When the tired hedger hies him home , Or by the woodland's... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1844 - 526 pages
...And so the tear-drop fills my eye, When yet in truth I know not why, Or wherefore I am sad. SOLITUDE. IT is not that my lot is low, That bids this silent...alone. In woods and glens I love to roam, When the tired hedger hies him home ; Or by the woodland pool to rest, When pale the star looks on its breast.... | |
 | 1844 - 628 pages
...or schemes to promote his welfare, thwarted by the interposition of malice or envy. What says he ? " It is not that my lot is low, That bids this silent...grief that bids me moan, It is that I am all alone." Not only had Kirke White softened the wild aspirations of his heart, and subdued its too ardent expectations,... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - English language - 1848 - 120 pages
...is not that my lot is low, 25 That bids the silent tear to flow ; » RuleXXl., Rem. 13. » Rule I. It is not grief that bids me moan, It is that I am all alone. In woods and glens 1 love to roam, When the tired hedger hies him home, Or by the woodland's pool to rest, 5 When pale... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 pages
...That active man engage ! The fears all, the tears all, Of dim, declining age ! SOLITUDE. II. K. WHITE. IT is not that my lot is low, That bids this silent...alone. In woods and glens I love to roam When the tired hedger hies him home ; Or by the woodland pool to rest, When the pale star looks on its breast.... | |
 | Religious poetry - 1850 - 300 pages
...divine disperse the gloom : Beyond the confines of the tomb, Appears the dawn of heaven ! SOLITUDE. IT is not that my lot is low, That bids this silent...alone. In woods and glens I love to roam, When the tired hedger hies him home ; Or by the woodland pool to rest, When pale the star looks on its breast.... | |
 | Hannah More - Devotional exercises - 1850 - 352 pages
...still That grants it or denies. THE COMPLAINT. [HK White. IT is not that my lot is low, That bids th.s silent tear to flow ; It is not grief that bids me...alone. In woods and glens I love to roam, When the tired hedger hies him home ; Or by the woodland pool to rest, When pale the star looks on its breast.... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1850 - 292 pages
...of mercy is not*' strained'. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. 28. It is not^ grief that bids me moan ; It is that I am all alone. 29. It is not^ with finite beings', like ourselves', that we hold intercourse. 30. It is not^ on account... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...drear: And, smiling faintly on the painful past, Compose my decent head, and breathe my last. SOLITUDE. It is not that my lot is low, That bids this silent...alone. In woods and glens I love to roam, When the tired hedger hies him home j Or by the woodland potil to rest, When the pale star looks on its breast.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...drear: And, smiling faintly on the painful past. Compose my decent head, and breathe my last. SOLITUDE. It is not that my lot is low, That bids this silent...grief that bids me moan, It is that I am all alone. Yet, when the silent evening sighs With hallow'd airs and symphonies, My spirit takes another tone,... | |
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It is not that my lot is low, That bids this silent tear to flow; It is not grief that bids me moan; It is that I am all alone. In woods and glens I love to roam, When the tired hedger hies him home; Or by the woodland pool to rest, When pale the star... 
