 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 páginas
...if it late were free, Or broke its cage to jwrch on mine, But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! of her grave below the hill, Which the sentinel cypress-tree...thus, in thathour, And of how, after all, old thing ; I could not die, tfi554 DESCRIPTIVE POEMS. But then at last away it flew, And then 't was mortal,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 páginas
...if it late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine ; But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! iam Collins. — Bom 1720, Died 1756. 888.— ODE....wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, deem'd that it might be My brother's soul come down to me ; But then at last away it flew, And then... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 168 páginas
...if it late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! 1 could not wish for thine, Or if it were in winged...Which made me both to weep and smile ; I sometimes deern'd that it might be My brother's soul come down to me. But then at last away it flew, And then... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 376 páginas
...if it late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged...; For — Heaven forgive that thought ! the while AVhicli made me both to weep and smile — I sometimes deem'd that it might be My brother's soul come... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1873 - 348 páginas
...wings, And song — that — said a thousand — things, And seemed to say them all — for — met I sometimes— deemed that it might be My brother's...But then — at last — away it flew, — And then — 't was mortal,— well — I knew, For he would never thus have flown, And left me twice — so... | |
 | 1876 - 564 páginas
...late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine ; But, knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! — I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged...down to me ; But then at last away it flew, And then 't was mortal well I knew ; For he would never thus have flown, And left me twice so doubly lone —... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 páginas
...if it late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine, But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine ! Or if it were, in winged...down to me; But then at last away it flew, And then 't was mortal, — well I knew, For he would never thus have flown, And left me twice so doubly lone,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 246 páginas
...r THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. 57 But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird! I could not wish for tliiuc ! Or if it were, in -winged guise, A visitant from Paradise...brother's soul come down to me; But then at last away it Hew, And then 't was mortal, — well I knew, Tor lie would never thus have flown, And left me twice... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 268 páginas
...But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! 1 could not wish for thine, Or if it were in winged gnise, A visitant from Paradise, For — Heaven forgive that...Which made me both to weep and smile ; I sometimes deem'd that it might be My brother's soul come down to nie. But then at last away it flew, And then... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 páginas
...if it late were free, Or broke its cage to perch on mine ; But knowing well captivity, Sweet bird ! I could not wish for thine — Or if it were, in winged...thought, the while Which made me both to weep and smile I — I sometimes deemed that it might be My brother's soul come down to me ; But then at last away it... | |
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... mate, But was not half so desolate, And it was come to love me when None lived to love me so again, And cheering from my dungeon's brink Had brought me back to feel and think. 
