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" My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it; Stands and lies by me, does what I have done, This too familiar care does make me rue it. "
Specimens of British Poetesses: Selected and Chronologically Arranged - Page 19
by Alexander Dyce - 1825 - 446 pages
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2

Henry Headley - English poetry - 1787 - 232 pages
...turn'd. My care is like my fliaddowe in the fune Followes me fliinge, flies when I purfue it, Standes and lies by me, does what I have done, This too familiar care does make me rue it, No meanes I finde to rid him from my brell, Till by the end of thinges it be fuppreft. Some gentler paffions...
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Specimens of the Early English Poets, Volume 1

George Ellis - English poetry - 1790 - 346 pages
...other felf I turn'd. v My care is like my fhadow in the fun, Follows me flying, flies when I purfue it ; Stands and lies by me, does what I have done; This too familiar care doth make me rue it. No means I find to rid him from my breaft, Till by the end of things it be fuppreft....
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The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, Volume 10

1798 - 756 pages
...other felt' I turn'd. II. My care is like my madow in the fun, Follows me flying ; flies when 1 purfue it ; Stands and lies by me ; does what I have done ; This too familiar ,care doth make me rue it. No means I find to rid him from my bread, Till by the end of things it be fuppreft....
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The British Critic, Volumes 9-10

English literature - 1798 - 752 pages
...other felt' I turn'd. II. My care is like my (hadow in the fun, Follows me flying ; flies when I puffue it ; Stands and lies by me ; does what I have done; This too familiar care doth make me rue it. No means I find to rid him from my breaft, Till by the end of things it be fupprelt....
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Gleanings of wit, interspersed with many original pieces, from the works of ...

Gleanings - 1805 - 232 pages
...prate; I am, and not — I freeze, and yet am burn'd, Since from myself, my other self is turn'd.. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying,...me, does what I have done ; This too familiar care doth make me rue it. No means I find to rid him from my breast, Till by the end of things it be suppress'd....
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2

Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 236 pages
...do prate : • I am, and not, I freeze, and yet am burn'd, Since from myself my other self I turn'd. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying,...him from my breast, Till by the end of things it be suppress'd. Some gentler passions slide into my mind, For I am soft, and made of melting snow ; Or...
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2

Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 238 pages
...inwardly do prate : I am, and not, I freeze, and yet am burn'd, Since from myself my other self I turn'd. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying,...find to rid him from my breast, Till by the end of tilings it be suppress'd. Some gentler passions slide into my mind, For I am soft, and made of melting...
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A metrical history of England; or, Recollections, in rhyme of some ..., Volume 2

Thomas John Dibdin - 1813 - 344 pages
...do prate. I am, and not, — I freeze, and am yet burned ; Since from myself my otherself I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying...me ; does what I have done ; This too familiar care doth make me rue it. No means I find to rid him from my breast, Till by the end of things it be supprcst....
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Tickler, Or, Monthly Compendium of Good Things, in Prose and ..., Volumes 1-3

English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...freeze, and yet am biirn'd, Since from myself, my oilier self I turn'd. My care is like my shadow in tfie sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it ; Stands and lies by me, does what 1 have done, This too familiar care does moke me rue it. No means I find to rid him from my breast,...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 1

1821 - 438 pages
...inwardly do prate : I am, and not, I freeze, and yet am burn'J, Since from myself my other self I turn'd. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, fliea when I pursue it ; Stands and lies by me, does what I have done, This too familiar care does...
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