 | Robert Tuttle Morris - Eugenics - 1916 - 574 pages
...other defects that are more tangible in character. "My whole life was a contest, since the day Which gave me being, gave me that which marr'd 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... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper1 woe. 25 Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. 16 I at times have found the struggle hard, 20 And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay: But now I... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1917 - 856 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... | |
 | Ralph Gordon Noel Milbanke Lovelace (2d earl of), Ralph Milbanke Earl of Lovelace - Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron - 1921 - 426 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 tunes have found the struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay : But now I fain... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - English poetry - 1923 - 864 pages
...mine overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. 25 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,... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 966 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...that which marr'd The gift,— a fate, or will, that walk'il astray ; And I at times have found the struggle hard. And thought of shaking off my bonds of... | |
 | Xavier Mayne, Edward Prime-Stevenson - Budapest (Hungary) - 1975 - 224 pages
.... . and surely that night I thought long, long thoughts till I finally slept. MASKS AND -A FACE. c My whole life was a contest since the day That gave me being, gave me that which marred The gift... < A silent suffering and intense...-. All that the proud can feel of pain, The agony... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...The careful pilot of my proper woe. IV. Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. My whole Ufe was a contest, since the day That gave me being, gave...gift,— a fate, or will, that walk'd astray; And I at times hare found the struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay: Bat now I fain... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...overthrow, The careful pilot of my proper woe. IV 25 Mine were my faults, and mine be their reward. My whole life was a contest, since the day That gave...The gift, - a fate, or will, that walk'd astray; And I at times have found the struggle hard, 30 And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay: But now I... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Byron (baron).) - 2000 - 134 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...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 day. But now I fain... | |
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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. 
