 THE garlands fade that Spring so lately wove, Each simple flower which she had nflhsed in dew, Anemonies, that spangled every grove, The primrose wan, and hare-bell mildly blue. No more shall violets linger in the dell, Or purple orchis variegate the...  Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register - Side 411832Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John C. Hampsey - 2004 - 236 sider
...there will be no rebirth of love. Ah! poor humanity! so frail, so fair, Are the fond visions of the early day, Till tyrant passion, and corrosive care,...May new buds and flowers shall bring; Ah! why has happiness—no second Spring? ("Close of Spring," 1l.9-14) The publication of Smith's Elegiac Sonnets... | |
 | Paula R. Backscheider - 2005 - 556 sider
...spring, "fades." In a surprising turn the final couplet contrasts the seasons to human experience: "Another May new buds and flowers shall bring; / Ah! why has happiness — no second Spring!" Her images in these sonnets and throughout her career have both concreteness and complexity, a characteristic... | |
 | Jane Austen - 2006 - 56 sider
...love unravelling in front of her is taken from Elegiac Sonnets. With Smith Anne might have exclaimed, 'poor humanity! so frail, so fair, / Are the fond...bring; / Ah! "why has happiness — no second Spring? And, however much the agricultural activity on the surrounding autumnal hills speaks of the farmer's... | |
 | Janet Todd - 2006 - 3 sider
...James Beattie, and Charlotte Smith, with its elegiac dissociation of natural seasons and human life: Another May new buds and flowers shall bring; / Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?'20 In Anne, assimilated quotations aestheticise and romanticise the pain of change and decay... | |
 | MRS. MILNER - 1856 - 1092 sider
...Till Spring once more shall call forth every bell, And dresa with humid hand her wreaths again. " Ah I poor humanity! So frail, so fair, Are the fond visions...shall bring, Ah! why has happiness no second Spring ? " THE ANSWER. Ah ! grieve not, lady, that the flowers should fade Which Spring had scatter'd with... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrup - 1888 - 790 sider
...the fond visions of thy early day, Till tyrant passion and corrosive cart; Bid all thy fairy colors fade away ! Another May new buds and flowers shall bring ; Ah ! why has happiness no second spring? Should the lone wanderer, fainting on his way, Rest for a moment of the sultry hours, And, though his... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1927 - 492 sider
...fond visions of thy early day, Till tyrant passion and corrosive care Bid all thy fairy colours flee away ! Another May new buds and flowers shall bring; Ah ! why has happiness no second spring ? ANONYMOUS YOUR hay it is mow'd, and your corn is reap'd, Your barns will be full, and your hovels... | |
 | 1863 - 516 sider
...plain, Till Spring again shall call forth every bell, And dress with humid hands her wreaths again — Another May new buds and flowers shall bring, Ah ! why has happiness no second Spring?" CHARLOTTE SMITH. "Still here the fate oflovely forms we see, So sudden fades the sweet Anemone ; The... | |
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