"Delightless" Quotes from Famous Books
... her green mantle blythe Nature arrays, And listens the lambkins that bleat o'er the braes, [hillsides] While birds warble welcomes in ilka green shaw; [wooded dell] But to me it's delightless—my ... — Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson
... youth, Not vainly they committed; me they sent To wait on pain, and silent arts to urge, Inglorious; not ignoble, if my cares, To such as languish on a grievous bed, Ease and the sweet forgetfulness of ill Conciliate; nor delightless, if the Muse, Her shades to visit and to taste her springs, If some distinguish'd hours the bounteous Muse 80 Impart, and grant (what she, and she alone, Can grant to mortals) that my hand those wreaths Of fame and honest favour, ... — Poetical Works of Akenside - [Edited by George Gilfillan] • Mark Akenside |