 Oh, Love! what is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved? Ah why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh? As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers, And place them on their breast...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 1071821Full view - About this book
 | James McGrigor Allan - 1862 - 300 pages
...this world of ours, Which makes it fatal to be loved. Ah ! why With cypress branches has thou wreath'd thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter a sigh ?...cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish." Wise indeed is the following advice : — " If ever you cherish a real affection, hide it like a treasure.... | |
 | 1862 - 522 pages
...in its courted and wearied man of fashion and of pleasure. He loved her, as we love very rarely, for As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers, And...breast, but place to die ; Thus the frail beings we should fondly eherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish. He loved her better than himself. Sweet... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved ? Ah ! why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter...cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish. BYRON. — Don Juan, Canto IU. Stanza 2. True he it said, whatever man it said, That love with gall... | |
 | Marie Louise De la Ramée - 1863 - 350 pages
...he had won ! He loved her with a strangely tender love. He loved her, as we love very rarely, for ' As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers, And...breast, but place to die ; Thus the frail beings we should fondly cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish !' He loved her better than himself.... | |
 | Ouida - English fiction - 1864 - 466 pages
...man of fashion and of pleasure. He loved her, as we love very rarely, for As those who dote on odors pluck the flowers, And place them on their breast, but place to die; Thus the frail beings we should fondly cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish. He loved her better than himself. Sweet... | |
 | English fiction - 1878 - 782 pages
...what is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved? Ah, why With cyprus branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter...cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish." ' I have said that this sort of love is by far the most general ; but beware of it — it may render... | |
 | English fiction - 1878 - 684 pages
...what is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved ? Ah, why With cyprus branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter...flowers. And place them on their breast— but place to dieThus the frail beings we would fondly cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish." ' I have... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1867 - 740 pages
...? Ah why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy And made thy beatinterpveter asigh ? [bo«r*, . dieThus the frail beings we would fondly clierbh Arc laid within our bosoms but to perish. Ш. In her... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 pages
...it, in this world of ours. Which makes it fatal to be loved? Ah ! why With cypress branches hast thuu wreathed thy bowers, And made thy best interpreter...— Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish, Arc laid within our bosoms but to perish. III. In her first passion, woman loves her lover ; In all... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Fore-edge painting - 1870 - 770 pages
...it fatal to be loved ? Ah ! why With cypress branches hast thou wreathed thy bowers, And made tliy h, my courage, or my inind, Or at this hour I should...old tales beneath a tree, With starless skies my can dieThus the frail beings we would fondly cherish, Are laid within our bosoms but to perish. In her... | |
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