 A Mighty pain to Love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss. But of all pains the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.  Select Works - Page 120by Abraham Cowley - 1772Full view - About this book
 | Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - Humor - 1992 - 178 pages
...To love, or as Martin Tupper once said, "Love — what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear!" • "A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain, Is to love, but love in vain." — Abraham Cowley • "Don't... | |
 | Martha Finley - Juvenile Fiction - 1993 - 362 pages
...cried, lifting a very bright face to his, "what a load you have taken from my mind." CHAPTER EIGHTH. "A mighty pain to love it is And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain." — COWIBY. ONE lovely... | |
 | 136 pages
...gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 Epipsychidion 9. A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain. Abraham Cowley 1618-1667... | |
 | Walt Whitman - Literary Collections - 2007 - 404 pages
...kept her dead child's hair; 65 The third— a bangle, bright and warm, Around a faithless woman's arm. A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pain the greatest pain, 70 It is to love, but love in vain. Maurice F. Egan on De... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1905 - 484 pages
...a whole Map behind of Names. Of gentle Love i'th' temperate Zone, And cold ones in the Frigid One, Cold frozen Loves with which I pine, And parched Loves beneath the Line. 54 VII. Gotd. A Mighty pain to Love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss. But of all pains the... | |
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