 | Marianne Young - Aldershot (England) - 1857 - 274 pages
...fires ; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. " But, a smooth and stedfast mind, Gentle thoughts, and calm desires, Hearts with...are not, I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes." This sonnet was perhaps eminently in the style of the times, but of a character superior to that of... | |
 | Amusing poetry - 1857 - 266 pages
...But a smooth and stedfast mind, Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combin'd, Kindle never-dying fires ; "Where these are not, I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes. THOMAS CAEEW. Sir USarmatmte. SIE MAEMADUKE was a hearty knight ; Good man ! old man ! He's painted... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...But a smooth and stedfast mind, Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combin'd, Kindle never-dying fires ; Where these are not, I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes. MEDIOCRITY IN LOVE REJECTED. THOMAS CAHEW. GIVE me more love or more disdain ; The torrid or the frozen... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires ; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. But a smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts and...are not, I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips or eyes. WOTTON. SIR HENEY WOTTON was born at Brougton Place, Kent, AB 1508. After the accession of James I.... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1858 - 512 pages
...that could induce her either to continue or forbear. She again sung : — " But a smooth and stedfast mind, Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with...are not, I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes." " You are fond of the lays of the olden time," said Lady Leslie, with a sigh ; " but I care not for... | |
 | Hearty staves, John Erskine Clarke - Hymns, English - 1858 - 152 pages
...waste away. But a smooth and steadfaste mind, Or corall lip admires. Or from star-like eyes doth seek Gentle thoughts, and calm desires, Hearts with equal...never-dying fires ; Where these are not, I despise Lovely cheekes, or lips, or eyes. NO JEWELLED BEAUTY IS MY LOVE. Yet in her earnest face There's such a world... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...fires, — As old time makes those decay, So his flames must waste away. Bat a smooth and stedfast mind, Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with...are not, I despise Lovely cheeks or lips or eyes." These, and some hundred pieces, chiefly of the same graceful artificial cast of lyric, were published... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...fires, — As old time makes those decay, So his flames must waste away. But a smooth and stedfast mind, Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with...Kindle never-dying fires. , Where these are not, I despite Lovely cheeks or lips or eyes." These, and some hundred pieces, chiefly of the same graceful... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires : As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. But a smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts and...are not, I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes. CAREW. [Of the poetry of PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY it is difficult to speak without a mournful feeling,... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1898 - 632 pages
...doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. "But a smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts...these are not, I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyee. " No tears, Celia, now shall win My resolved heart to return ; • , , I have searched thy soul... | |
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HE that loves a rosy Cheek, Or a coral Lip admires ; Or from star-like Eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires : As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away ! But a smooth and steadfast Mind, Gentle Thoughts, and calm Desires, Hearts... 
