 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
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1903 - 652 pages
...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...odours pluck the flowers, And place them on their breast—but place to die— Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish Are laid within our bosoms... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1092 pages
...is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved ? Ah, why 10 With cypress branches hast the pleasaunces on earth supplied, Swept into wrecks anon by Time's ungentle tide ! Ill In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all the others all she loves is love, Which grows... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1110 pages
...is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved ? Ah, why 10 With cypress branches hast s: If they had meant to slay us here, In her first passion woman loves her lover, In jill the others all she Jo Yes, is. 10 Ye, Which grows... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1088 pages
...in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved ? Ah, why 10 With cypress branches hast thon the Ausonian soil Hath hearts, and hands, and arms,...toil, While still Division sows the seeds of And w — driven, Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1098 pages
...is it in this world of ours Which makes it fatal to be loved ? Ah, why ,0 With cypress branches hast ifflin company ]>lace them on their breast — but place to die — Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish... | |
 | Ouida - 1907 - 540 pages
...happiness 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...them on their breast, but place to die ) Thus the frall beings we should fondly cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish I He loved her better... | |
 | Madison Julius Cawein - Literary Collections - 1911 - 396 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 a sigh? As those who dote on odors pluck the flowers, And place them on their breast — but place to die; Thus the frail beings... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1914 - 136 pages
...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...sigh ? As those who dote on odours pluck the flowers, 5 And place them on their breast — but place to die — Thus the frail beings we would fondly cherish... | |
 | Tjeerd Popma - Dutch literature - 1928 - 444 pages
...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...cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish. * Het zuivere ottava rima van Byron is in de Nederlandsche vertaling, die ook weer langer is, prijsgegeven.... | |
 | American literature - 1924 - 348 pages
...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...cherish Are laid within our bosoms but to perish. These stanzas were evidently originally intended to open the third canto, for the manuscript is headed,... | |
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