 Forever — never! Never — forever!" There groups of merry children played, There youths and maidens dreaming strayed; O precious hours! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Seite 2061851Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1851 - 786 Seiten
...yonths and maidens dreaming strayed: O precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time 1 Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient...told — • For ever — never ! Never— for ever ! ' All are scattered now and fled, Some are married, some are dead ; And when I ask, with throbs of... | |
 | 1850 - 464 Seiten
...youths and maidens dreaming strayed. 0 precious hours ! 0 golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient time-piece told, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever !" From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1846 - 178 Seiten
...and maidens dreaming strayed ; O precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece told, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 570 Seiten
...and maidens dreaming strayed, Oh, precious hours ! O, golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient time-piece told, — "Forever — never ! Never — forever !" From that chamber, clothed in white The bride came forth... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 128 Seiten
...and maidens dreaming strayed ; O precious hours ! 0 golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient...told, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever !" Prom that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth on her wedding-night ; There, in that... | |
 | 1850 - 642 Seiten
...and maiden's dreaming О precious hours! 0 golden prime, [stray d; And affluence of Love and Time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the Ancient...Timepiece told, " For ever— never ! Never— for ever Г From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth for wedding dight ; There, in that silent... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 Seiten
...and maidens dreaming strayed ; O precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient...told, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever!" From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth on her wedding night ; There, in that silent... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 Seiten
...and maidens dreaming strayed ; 0 precious hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece told, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came... | |
 | 1851 - 792 Seiten
...tame commentary on human life. At the fifth verse, as it stands in our qnotation, the old clock qnite forgets his character of monitor, and occupies himself...description as the text of his poem, it was worth the anthor's pains to carry it ont with a certain distinctuess and unity. Considering the tact and... | |
 | 1851 - 856 Seiten
...Ли clock means by the solemnrefraiu, "Forever—never! Never —for ever !" When at the last verse its " ever— never." " Even as a miser counts his...description as the text of his poem, it was worth the author's pains to carry it out with a certain distinctness and unity. Considering the tact and... | |
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