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My Triumph, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Контексте: Sweeter than any sung
My songs that found no tongue;
Nobler than any fact
My wish that failed of act.

Others shall sing the song,
Others shall right the wrong,—
Finish what I begin,
And all I fail of win.

My Triumph, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Контексте: Sweeter than any sung
My songs that found no tongue;
Nobler than any fact
My wish that failed of act.

Others shall sing the song,
Others shall right the wrong,—
Finish what I begin,
And all I fail of win.

Bret Harte wrote a famous parody of this famous poem, "Mrs. Judge Jenkins" in which the Judge marries Maud, and which he ends with the lines:
Maud soon thought the Judge a bore,
With all his learning and all his lore;
And the Judge would have bartered Maud's fair face
For more refinement and social grace.
If, of all words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are, "It might have been,"
More sad are these we daily see:
"It is, but hadn't ought to be".
Maud Muller (1856)
Контексте: Alas for maiden, alas for Judge,
For rich 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!"

The Worship of Nature, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Calef in Boston, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Brown of Ossawatomie, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Maud Muller (1856)

The Chapel of the Hermits, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Snow Bound, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

To Charles Sumner, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Rantoul, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Ichabod, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Sunset on the Bearcamp, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

To the Reformers of England, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Maud Muller (1856)

The lost Occasion, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

The Chapel of the Hermits; comparable to Mrs. Browning, Aurora Leigh, Book vii

Maud Muller (1856)

The New Year, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

To ———, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

A Dream of Summer, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Источник: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 399

Snow Bound, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Maud Muller (1856)

The Beautiful, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Line on Burns, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Maud Muller (1856)

To A. K. On receiving a Basket of Sea-Mosses, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

My Psalm, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)