 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1814 - 652 pages
...unmatchM Must fall the earliest prey, Though by no hand untimely snatch'd, The leaves must drop away: And yet it were a greater grief To watch it withering,...ill can bear To trace' the change to foul from fair. 6. I know not if I could have borne To see thy beauties fade; The night that foliow'd such a morn Had... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1814 - 640 pages
...unmatch'd Must fall the earliest prey, Though by no hand untimely snatch'd, The leaves must drop away: And yet it were a greater grief To watch it withering, leaf by leaf, Than sec it pluck'd to-day; Since earthly eye but ill can bear To trace the change to foul from fair. 6.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1812 - 314 pages
...unmatch'd Must fall the earliest prey, Though by no hand untimely snatch'd, The leaves must drop away : And yet it were a greater grief To watch it withering, leaf by leaf, 4. 6. I know not if I could have borne To see thy beauties fade ; The night that follow'd such a morn... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Istanbul (Turkey) - 1814 - 330 pages
...unmatch'd Must fall the earliest prey, Though by no hand untimely snatch'd, The leaves must drop away : And yet it were a greater grief To watch it withering,...ill can bear To trace- the change to foul from fair. 5. 6. I know not if I could have borne To see thy beauties fade ; The night that follow'd such a morn... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 322 pages
...unmatch'd Must fall the earliest prey, Though by no. hand untimely snatch'd, The leaves must drop away : And yet it were a greater grief To watch it withering,...ill can bear To trace the change to foul from fair. 5. 6. I know not if I could have borne To see thy beauties fade ; The night that follow'd such a mom... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 230 pages
...unmatched Must fall the earliest prey; Though by no hand untimely snatched, The leaves must drop away: And yet it were a greater grief To watch it withering, leaf by leaf, Than see it plucked to-day; Since earthly eye but ill can bear To trace the change to foul from fair. 6. I know... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1816 - 234 pages
...unmatched Must fall the earliest prey; Though by no hand untimely snatched, The leaves must drop away : And yet it were a greater grief To watch it withering, leaf by leaf, Than see it plucked to-day; Since earthly eye but ill can bear To trace the change to foul from fair. 6. I know... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 226 pages
...unmatched Must fall the earliest prey; Though by no hand untimely snatched, The leaves must drop away: And yet it were a greater grief To watch it withering, leaf by leaf, Than see it plucked to-day; Since earthly eye but ill can bear To trace the change to foul from fair. 6. I know... | |
 | Robert Huish - Nobility - 1818 - 904 pages
...victim for awhfle ; and then, with one fell blow, levelled this beauteous scene of human happiness! I know not if I could have borne To see thy beauties fade; The night that followed such a rtiorn Had worn a deeper shade ; The day without a cloud had past, And thou wert lovely... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820 - 306 pages
...unmatch'd Must fall the earliest prey ; Though by no hand untimely snatch'd, The leaves must drop away : And yet it were a greater grief To watch it withering,...ill can bear To trace the change to foul from fair. 6. I know not if I could have borne To see thy beauties fade ; The night that follow'd such a morn... | |
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... silence of that dreamless sleep I envy now too much to weep ; Nor need I to repine That all those charms have pass'd away ; I might have watch'd through long decay. 
