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" Comfort? comfort scorn'd of devils! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Drug thy memories, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on... "
Poems - Page 99
by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 231 pages
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...a little dearer than his horse. Comfort ? comfort scorned of devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier...thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dend unhappy night, when the rain is on the roof. Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward...
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Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England

Royal Agricultural Society of England - Agriculture - 1879 - 1154 pages
...circumstances depicted in that miserybreathing line from the Poet Laureate's pen, of which the scene is laid " in the dead unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof." It would be easy to mention many instances in which the horses exhibited at Kilburn showed their susceptibility...
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A New Spirit of the Age, Volume 2

Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 330 pages
...happiness, says that such a memory is the very crown of sorrow : — " Drug thy memories, lest tbou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead...art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp nickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken...
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A New Spirit of the Age, Volume 2

Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 392 pages
...their former happiness, says that such a memory is the very crown of sorrow: — '' Drug thy memoriaa, lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the rain u on the roof. Like a dog he hunta in dreams^ and thou art staring at the wall, Where the dying night-lamp...
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A New Spirit of the Age, Volume 1

Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 382 pages
...lest thy heart be pot to proof, In the dead unhappy mght, and when tho rain ia on the ruoof. Like • dog he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, Where the dying uight-lump flickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...truly : love is love for evermore. Comfort ? comfort scorn'd of devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier...unhappy night, and when the rain is on the roof. Like a do;, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, When the dying night-lamp flickers, and...
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Poems

Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...truly : love is love for evermore. Comfort? comfort scorn 'd of devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier...to proof, In the dead unhappy night, and when the ram is on the roof. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, Where the dying...
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The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...truly : love is love for evermore. Comfort? comfort scorn'd of devils ! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier...hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, When the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall. Then a hand shall pass before thee,...
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The Living Authors of England

Thomas Powell - Authors, English - 1849 - 324 pages
...falsehood, by the memory of their former happiness, says that such a memory is a crown of sorrow — " Drug thy memories lest thou learn it, lest thy heart be put to proof, In the dead unhappy night, when the rain is on the roof, Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To...
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Poems

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 pages
...truly : love is love for evermore. Comfort? comfort scorn'd of devils! this is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier...Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows Then a hand shall pass before thee, pointing to his drunken sleep, To thy widow'd marriage-pillows,...
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