 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1106 σελίδες
...overlooked or unforeseen, I have sustained my share of worldly shocks, The fault was mine ; nor do I seek to ain : At length, with love and wine at once oppressed,...still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying marred% The gift, — a fate, or will, that walked astray : And I at times have found the struggle... | |
 | University of St. Andrews - 1904 - 790 σελίδες
...already told you what you can." (6) "Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face." (c) " Mine were my faults and mine be their reward, My whole...since the day That gave me being, gave me that which manM The gift, — a fate, or will, that walk'd astray." (d) " O Lady ! we receive but what we give,... | |
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If my inheritance of storms hath been In other elements - and on the rocks Of perils overlooked or unforeseen I have sustained my share of worldly shocks The fault was mine - nor do I seek to screen My errors with defensive paradox I have been cunning... 
