 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 268 psl.
...tho' excellent in neither. THE BENEFIT OF FRIENDSHIP. WHEN to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the...wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unus'd to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1808 - 224 psl.
...FRIENDSHIP. \Vhen to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh ihe lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new...wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unus'd to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 728 psl.
...then I scorn to change my state with kings. SONNET XXX. WH«N to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the...wail my dear time's waste Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long-since... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 380 psl.
...tho' excellent in neither i THE BENEFIT OF FRIENDSHIP. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought,. I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the...wail my dear time's waste-. Then can I drown an eye (umis'd to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 372 psl.
...tho' excellent in neither. THE BENEFIT OF FRIENDSHIP. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past, , I sigh the...sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Thtn can I drown an eye (unus'd to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless nightr And weep... | |
 | 1835 - 564 psl.
...gayest of the gay, that has not often experienced it ? " When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the...time's waste : Then can I drown an eye unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe!"'||... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 psl.
...That then I scorn to change my state with kings. XXX. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the...sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste 2 : Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow 3, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night4,... | |
 | Gaius Valerius Catullus - 1821 - 172 psl.
...sonnet much resembling it in idea and expression. " When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, " I summon up remembrance of things past, " I sigh the...a thing I sought, " And with old woes new wail my time's dear waste. " Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow,) " For precious friends hid in death's... | |
 | 1823 - 428 psl.
...the third has all the colour and odour of Spring. XXX. " When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the...wail my dear time's waste : Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long-since-cancell'd... | |
 | 1823 - 428 psl.
...the third has all the colour and odour of Spring. XXX. " When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the...wail my dear time's waste : Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long-since-cancell'd... | |
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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste... 
