| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1893 - 482 pages
...loving him for it. Indeed, it is almost enough to make us forgive that invidiously dreadful rhyme: " For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been! ' " "Skipper Ireson's Bide," on the other hand, has much of the true ballad quality... | |
| Mary Wolcott Janvrin - 1857 - 416 pages
...cooling streams live longest in our hearts ! Well for us, if Regret walk not hand in hand with Memory ! For " Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these : ' It might have been ! ' " Thus, in that hour, it was doubly bitter to the remorse-stricken man who bowed... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 644 pages
...repiner'and household drudge! God pity them both ! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been !" All, well ! for us all some sweet hope lies Deeply buried from human eyes ; And,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pages
...and household drudge t God pity them both, and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: " It might have been!" Ah, well ! for us all some sweet hope lie* Deeply buried from human eyes ; And, in... | |
| Louise Chandler Moulton - 1859 - 450 pages
...feet. JEW m ijj* Uollq. God pity them both ! and pity us all Who vainly the dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these : "It might have been ! " Ah well ! for us all some sweet hope lies Deeply buried from human eyes ; And,... | |
| Louise Chandler Moulton - 1859 - 440 pages
...JBtat urn tjtf f alieg. God pity them both ! and pity us all Who vainly the dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these : '"It might have been !" Ah well ! for us all some sweet hope lies Deeply buried from human eyes ; And, in... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 552 pages
...and household drudge ! God pity them both ! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these : " It might have been !" Ah, well ! for us all some sweet hope lies Deeply buried from human eyes; And, in... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 526 pages
...and household drudge ! God pity them both ! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these : "It might have been !" Ah, well ! for us all some sweet hope lies Deeply buried from human eyes; And, in... | |
| 1861 - 356 pages
...wintry sea. KEELE. O life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as 11 For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" WHITTIEE. [See also CONTENTMENT.] DISEASE— (See SIcENEss.) DIVINE JUSTICE—(See... | |
| 1861 - 178 pages
...late !" God grant that your future endless years may not be tormented by such memories as these. " For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these — It might have been." THE PKECIOUS BLOOD OP JESUS. long ago I had an opportunity of witnessing the preciousness... | |
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