I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed. The Southern Review - Page 1151829Full view - About this book
| Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 312 pages
...remember all The friends, so linked together, I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted,...fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed. Thus, in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Sad memory brings the light Of other days... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1861 - 586 pages
...exordium. He speaks over the graves of his great friends. He must feel " like one who treads alono Some banquet-hall deserted ; Whose lights are fled, whose garlands dead, And all but he departed !" Greafly and generously the gallant survivor speaks of " the days that are no more," and reviews... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...remember all The friends so link'd together I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted,...fled Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed! Thus- in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days... | |
| Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...remember all The friends so link'd together I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted...fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed ! Thus in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days... | |
| 1861 - 584 pages
...white head. There is pathos in his exordium. He speaks over the graves of his great friends. He must feel "like one who treads alone Some banquet-hall...fled, whose garlands dead, And all but he departed !" Greatly and generously the gallant survivor speaks of " the days that are no more," and reviews... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1861 - 778 pages
...remember all The friends, so link'd together, I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather ; I feel like one, Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted. Whose lights are fled, Whose garland's dead, And all but he departed ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound... | |
| United States - 1861 - 72 pages
...around me fall, Like leaves in wintry -weather ; I feel like one who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, "Whose lights are fled, whose garlands dead, And all but he departed. Thus, in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain lias bound me, Sad mem'ry brings the light Of other... | |
| George W. Henry - 1861 - 384 pages
...and silent. Desolation brooded over the scene. " I felt like one who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, whose garlands dead, And all but he departed." Or, like Richard III., I felt that " I never could endure an inglorious peace." It was like a sickening... | |
| Scotland - 1861 - 996 pages
...fear — for ever. Under these circumstances, " I fesl like one Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead. And all but he departed;" but with this difference, that I have departed and left the lights (the footlights), and the garlands... | |
| Samuel Irenæus Prime - Clergy - 1863 - 464 pages
...remember all The friends, once linked together, I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather, I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted...fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.' "All who knew Dr. Murray will understand, to some extent, my feelings when I say that I had not only... | |
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