The Annual Anthology Author:Robert Southey General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1799 Original Publisher: T.N. Longman and O. Rees. Subjects: English poetry Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial acces... more »s to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: REMEMBRANCE. Tht remembrance of Youth a a tigk. Man hath a weary pilgrimage As thro' the world he wends On every stage from youth to age. Still discontent attends. With heaviness he casts his eye Upon the road before, And still remembers with a sigh. The days that are no more. When first Remembrance in the soul Awakes her infant power, 'Tis but to teach the hard controul That binds the present hour, From strange restraints and idle rules, The tyrant discipline of schools, The childish thought will roam; And tears will struggle in his eye, Whilst he remembers with a sigh, The comforts of his home. The emancipating hour is come,. The long-expecled years! And still he shares the common doom. The slave of hopes and fears. Young Love before his eager eyes Presents a promised paradise, But still the sullen fiend Delay, Or bars him on his onward way To scenes so seeming fair; Or he may reach the wish'd-for seat,. And when he thinks his joys compleat, Find Disappointment there. So he remembers with a sigh The careless days of infancy! Maturer manhood now arrives,. And other thoughts come on; But with the baseless hopes of youtf. Its generous warmth is gone. Cold caleulating cares, succeed, The timid thought, the wary deed,. The dull realities of truth. Back on the past he turns his eye, Remembering, with an envious sigh; The faery dreams of youth. So reaches be the latter stage Of this our mortal pilgrimage, With feeble step and slow; New ills, his latter stage await, And old e...« less