 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Ballads, English - 1866 - 450 pages
...thought, but it might not be so, She was sorry to see me depart ; She cast such a languishing view, My path I could scarcely discern, So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. I thought she might like to retire To the grove I had labour'd to rear ; For whatever I heard her admire,... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Songs - 1866 - 300 pages
...thought, but it might not be so, She was sorry to see me depart ; She cast such a languishing view, My path I could scarcely discern, So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought tha1. she bade me return. I thought she might like to retire To the grove I had labour'd to rear ;... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...35 'T was with pain that she saw me depart. She gazed, as I slowly withdrew ; My path I could hardly discern; So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. -10 The pilgrim that journeys all day To visit some far-distant shrine, If he bear but a relic away,... | |
 | William Shenstone - English wit and humor - 1868 - 364 pages
...in my heart ! Yet I thought — but it might not be so — 'Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gazed as I slowly withdrew, My path I could scarcely...bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. His prose consists chiefly of Essays thrown into the form of aphorisms, and is well worth reading.... | |
 | William Shenstone - English wit and humor - 1868 - 364 pages
...felt in my heart! Yet I thought—but it might not be so— 'Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gazed as I slowly withdrew, My path I could scarcely...bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. His prose consists chiefly of Essays thrown into the form of aphorisms, and is well worth reading.... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.* Written on the Window of an Inn. So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. A Pastoral. Part \. I have found out a gift for my fair ; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed.... | |
 | Alfred Henderson - Proverbs, Latin - 1869 - 526 pages
...beneficii est quod petitur si bene neges. SYR. — A favour is half granted, when graciously refused. " So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return." SHENSTONE. Pars minima est ipsa puella sui. OVID. — The girl is the smallest portion of herself.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...— 'Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gaz'd as I slowly withdrew; My path I could hardly discern: So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. The pilgrim that journeys all day To visit some far-distant shrine, If he bear but a relique away,... | |
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When forced the fair nymph to forego. What anguish I felt at my heart: Yet I thought — but it might not be so — Twas with pain that she saw me depart. She gazed as I slowly withdrew, My path I could hardly discern; So sweetly she bade me adieu, I... 
