 | 586 pages
...her, and were followed by a poem in the Spenserian stanza, of equal beauty, beginning — u My Bister, my sweet sister ! if a name Dearer and purer were, It should be thine.1* His will evinces in another way his affection for his sister. Nor was Augusta forgetful of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 pages
...explore The essence of great bosom» now no more." * * "TO AUGUSTA. " My sifter ! my sweet sister I If a name Dearer and purer were, It should be thine. Mountains and seas divide us, but 1 claim No tear«, but tenileraea« to answer mine : Go where I will, to me thou art the same — A... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...sceptred cynics earth were far too wide a den. THE POET'S SISTER, THE HONOURABLE MRS. LEIGH. MY sister ! my sweet sister ! if a name Dearer and purer were,...in my destiny, — A world to roam through, and a home with thee. The first were nothing ; had I still the last, It were the haven of my happiness :... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1855 - 434 pages
...solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee. July 24, 1816. EPISTLE TO AUGUSTA.8 MY sister ! my sweet sister ! if a name Dearer and purer were,...in my destiny, — A world to roam through, and a home with thee. The first were nothing — had I still the last, It were the haven of my happiness... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1855 - 584 pages
...great bosoms now no more." "TO AUGUSTA. I. Go where 1 will, to me thou art the same — A loved regrel which I would not resign. There yet are two things in my destiny, — A world to roam through, and a home with thee. II. " The first were nothing — had I still the last, It were the haven of my happiness... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 pages
...a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of th.ee. EPISTLE TO AUGUSTA. MY sister ! my sweet sister ! if a name Dearer and purer were,...in my destiny, — A world to roam through, and a home with thee. The first were nothing — had I still the last, It were the haven of my happiness... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 pages
...solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee. July 24, 1816. EPISTLE TO AUGUSTA. MT sister '. my sweet sister ! if a name Dearer and purer were,...should be thine. Mountains and seas divide us, but I elaim No tears, but tenderness to answer mine : Go where I will, to me thou art the same — A loved... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee. July 24, 181G. EPISTLE TO AUGUSTA. Jlv sister! my sweet sister! if a name Dearer and purer were,...in my destiny, — A world to roam through, and a home with thee. The first were nothing — had I still the last, It were the haven of my happiness... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 292 pages
...solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee. July 24,1818. EPISTLE TO AUGUSTA.* t MT sister! my sweet sister! if a name Dearer and purer were,...in my destiny, — A world to roam through, and a home with thee. n. The first were nothing — had I still the last, It were the haven of my happiness... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...urn! O when shall it dawn on the night of the grave!' J. BEATTIE 799 EPISTLE TO AUGUSTA MY sister! my sweet sister! if a name dearer and purer were,...in my destiny, — a world to roam through, and a home with thee. The first were nothing — had I still the last, it were the haven of my happiness... | |
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My sister ! my sweet sister ! if a name Dearer and purer were, it should be thine ; Mountains and seas divide us, but I claim No tears, but tenderness to answer mine : Go where I will, to me thou art the same — A loved regret which I would not resign.... 
