 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 páginas
...acknowledged my dominion ; Now my sere fancy 'falls into the yellow Leaf,' and Imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature... | |
 | Autumn leaves - 1882 - 210 páginas
...did perfume the air, Sacred and sweet was all I saw in her.' 2. ' A turn for punning, call it .' 3. ' And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once .' 4. ' Let me play the fool, With age and wrinkles let sage counsels come.' 5. ' Fare thee well, and... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 734 páginas
...acknowledged my dominion ; Now my sere fancy 'falls into the yellow Leaf,' and Imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, :Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, Tis that our nature cannot... | |
 | Cesare Cantù - 1883 - 122 páginas
...all religion. (2)"Now, my sere fancy falls into the yellow leaf, And imagination droops his pinion, And the sad truth, which hovers o'er my desk, Turns what was once romantic to burlesque." Don Juan, Canto 4. Only 50 copies of this poem were first intended to be printed for private circulation.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 páginas
...acknowledged my dominion ; Now my sere fancy 'falls into the yellow Leaf,' and Imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, Tis that our nature cannot... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1884 - 654 páginas
...acknowledged my dominion ; Now my sere fancy ' falls into the yellow Leaf,' and Imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may rfbt weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1884 - 690 páginas
...And again: — " Now my sere fancy ' falls into the yellow Leaf,' and imagination droops her pinion: And the sad truth, which hovers o'er my desk, Turns what was once romantic to burlesque." THE WORN-OUT STEED. Re wise and release from the chariot in time thy aged steed, lest he become the... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1884 - 694 páginas
...And again: — " Now my sere fancy ' falls into the yellow Leaf,' and imagination droops her pinion: And the sad truth, which hovers o'er my desk, Turns what was once romantic to burlesque." THE WORN-OUT STEED. Re wise and release from the chariot in time thy aged steed, lest he become the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 290 páginas
...acknowledged mydominion: Now my sere fancy "falls into the yellow Leaf,"* and Imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'T is that I may not weep ; and if I weep, 'T is that our nature... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 páginas
...acknowledged my dominion : Now my sere fancy ' falls into the yellow Leaf,' and Imagination droops her pinion, The wrangling about this epithet, • the broad Hellespont, or the ' bouiuliess Helles IV. And if Т laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep ; and if I weep, 'Tis that our nature... | |
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falls into the yellow Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion, And the sad truth which hovers o'er my desk Turns what was once romantic to burlesque. 
