 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Fore-edge painting - 1870 - 770 pages
...mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward : yron I at times have found the struggle hard. And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay: But now I fain... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English poetry - 1870 - 524 pages
...mine overthrow, the careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward, my whole life was a contest, since the day that gave me being, gave me that which marred the gift, — a fate, or will, that walked astray; and I at times have found the struggle hard,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward, — And all at once to the bishop they go. They have whetted their teeth against marred The gift, — a fate, or will, that walked astray : And 1 at times have found the struggle hard,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward . My whole life was a contest, since the day That gave me being gave me that which marred The gift, — a fate, or will, that walked astray : And I at times have found the struggle hard,... | |
 | Imperial pocket reader - 1878 - 202 pages
...mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward ; My whole life was a contest, since the day That gave me being, gave me that which marred The gift — a fate, or will, that walked astray : And I at times have found the struggle hard,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879 - 290 pages
...mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward : My whole life was a contest, since the day That gave...gift — a fate, or will, that walk'd astray ; And I at times have found the struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay : But now I fain... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 pages
...mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. My whole life was a contest, since the day That gave...gift, — a fate, or will, that walk'd astray; And I at times have found the struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay : But now I fain... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 pages
...mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. My whole life was a contest, since the day That gave...gift, — a fate, or will, that walk'd astray; And I at times have found the struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay : But now I fain... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward, Aly m. A little thing may harm a wounded man ; Yet I thy best * So saying, from marred The gift, — a fate, or will, that walked astray : And 1 at times have found the struggle hard,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...in mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine he theirreward: My whole life was a contest, since the day That gave me heing, gave me that which marr'd The gift— a fate, or will, that walk'd astray ; And I at times have... | |
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The gift, — a fate, or will, that walk'd astray ; And I at times have found the struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay : But now I fain would for a time survive, If but to see what next can well arrive. 
