The more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding stages : A day to childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. The gladsome current of our youth, Ere passion yet disorders, Steals lingering like a river smooth Along its grassy borders.... The Cambridge Annual for 1886-1888 - Стр. 12редактор(ы): - 1885Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| New Church gen. confer - 1871 - Страниц: 644
...as weeks used to. This is beautifully expressed by the poet Campbell in the following lines : — " The more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding...childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. The gladsome current of our youth Ere passion yet disorders, Steals lingering like a river smooth Along... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - Страниц: 1022
...rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man. THE RIVEli OF LIFE. THE more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding stages: A clay to childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. The gladsome current of our youth, Ere... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1837 - Страниц: 332
...show it ; But for perfect worship leave Dora to her poet. . 224 . A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY THE NEW YEAR. THE more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding...childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. The gladsome current of our youth, Ere passion yet disorders, Steals, lingering like a river smooth... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1837 - Страниц: 328
...But for perfect worship leave Dora to her poet. •A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY THE NEW YEAR. — • — THE more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding...childhood seems a year, • And years like passing ages. The gladsome current of our youth, Ere passion yet disorders, Steals, lingering like a river smooth... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1837 - Страниц: 360
...harmonic, To look in M — y C 's eyes, And try to be Platonic. A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY THE NEW YEAR. THE more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding...childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. The gladsome current of our youth, Ere passion yet disorder-, Steals, lingering like a river smooth... | |
| Ann Jane - 1869 - Страниц: 302
...to be thinned and silvered. We are, every one, growing older — may we all be noaring eternal joy ! The more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding stages ; A dny to childhood seems a year, A year like passing ages. When joys have lost their early charm, And... | |
| 1837 - Страниц: 218
...or hasty word, Go — call hun to thy heart again ! Let Pride no more be heard. BV THOMAS CAMPBELL. THE more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding...childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. The gladsome current of our youth, Ere passion yet disorders, Steals, ling'ring, l,ke a river smooll.... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1852 - Страниц: 426
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| Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1855 - Страниц: 620
...sight and dim-: interference. YOUTH AND AGE. THE more we live, more brief appear Our life's successive stages ; A day to childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. The gladsome current of our youth Ere passion yet disorders, Steals lingering like a river smooth,... | |
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