...interest and principle." When he was thirty-six he wrote: My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone. Robbie Burns wrote in 'Tarn O'Shanter": Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield) , one of Britain's greatest...

...vanity across his life just three months before he died: My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, one of Britain's brilliant peers of Parliament and her most...

...move: Yet, though I cannot be belov'd, Still let me love! My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of Love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! I The poem is included in my tape 'Byron's Rhetoric' published by Sound Seminars, Cincinnati (p. 14...

...move: Yet, though I cannot be beloved, Still let me love! My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! No torch is kindled at its blaze — A funeral pile. The hope, the fear, the jealous care, The exalted...

...move, Yet though I cannot be beloved Still let me love. My days are in the yellow leaf The flowers and fruits of love are gone — The worm, the canker and the grief Are mine alone.48 Byron presents in this poem a jaded version of his former dashing poetic self. The narrator...

...life's riot", wails Pushkin, while Byron moans, "My days are in the yellow leaf, The flowers and fruit of love are gone, The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone."2 Indeed, an official,3 who at this period advised his removal from the southern post, testily...