 Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. My Mary, dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast ? 256.  The Works of Robert Burns - Page 253by Robert Burns - 1841Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1809 - 530 pages
...glowing west Proclaim'd the speed of winged day. * Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their chanrfek deeper wear. ' My Mary, dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? Sae'st... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day Oh Mary ! dear departed shade*! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid f Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast? That sacred hour can I forget ; Can I forget the hallow'd... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary ! dear departed shade '. Where is thy place of blissful rest ? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid ? ' Hcar'st thou the groans that rend his breast .' That sacred hour can I forget, Can I forget the... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1815 - 354 pages
...words, but the value I have for your friendship, nothing can more truly or more elegantly express than " Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear." Having written to you twice without having heard from you, I am apt to think my Itttf rs h:ive I I... | |
 | Scottish songs - 1816 - 378 pages
...glowing west Proclaim'd the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods with miser care; Time but the impression stronger...laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast ? * * The Editor of the Reliques of BURNS has the following remarks on the circumstance that gave birth... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 pages
...but the value I have for your friendship, nothing can more truly or more elegantly express, than " Time but the impression stronger makes, " As streams their channels deeper wear." Having written to you twice without having heard from you, I am apt to think my letters have miscarried.... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...winged day. Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, N And fondly broods with miser care j Time but th' impression stronger makes, As streams their channels...laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast ' ? 22. — MARY MAGDALEN. This day was first dedicated to the memory of St. Mary Magdalen, by King... | |
 | England - 1838 - 884 pages
...thing except his love for Jacqueline. That, indeed, grew warmer every day ; for, in cases like that, " Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear." And an incident happened about this time that fed him with fresh hopes. One morning a letter was presented... | |
 | 1818 - 502 pages
...scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but th' impression stronger make*, As streams their channels deeper wear. My Mary, dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful ret Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groani that read his breast I* DOG-DAYS BEGIN,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...glowing west Proclaim'd the speed of winged day. Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger...of blissful rest? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hcar'st thou the groans that rend his breast '•>. SONG. I FAREWEM/, thou fair day, thou green earth,... | |
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