| Norman Macleod - 1859 - 564 Seiten
...weeping ! Ah ! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround, Ah ! little think they while they dance along, How many feel this very moment death And all the ead variety of pain. One night of watching by a sick-bed reminds us of these forgotten realities. It... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 Seiten
...dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed, By shameful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine in want and dungeon glooms ; Shut from the common... | |
| John Marshall Lowrie - 1861 - 294 Seiten
...affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah little think they while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain ! How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame !" Who could bear... | |
| J C. Graham - 1861 - 134 Seiten
...surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel this very moment death, And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed,... | |
| Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 Seiten
...surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth; And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah 1 little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain: How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed,... | |
| James Thomson - 1862 - 272 Seiten
...affluence, surround; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain;— How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame;—how many bleed,... | |
| Matilda Charlotte Houstoun - 1862 - 348 Seiten
...licentious crowd, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; ****** Ah ! little think they, as they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.' — THOMSON. THERE was a very heavy shower falling, one cold February afternoon,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 Seiten
...surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed,... | |
| John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 Seiten
...licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround. THOMSON.— Winter, Line 822. Ah 1 little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain. THOMSON. — Winter, Line 828. THINKING.— Who can hold a fire in his hand, By... | |
| William Howitt - 1863 - 726 Seiten
...surround ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ahl little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain : How many aink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame : how many bleed,... | |
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