 God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.  An Introduction to Poetry - Page 279by Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty - 1922 - 524 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1840 - 378 pages
...that bares her bosom to the moon ; The winds, that will be howling at all hours, And are upgather'd now like sleeping flowers :: For this, for everything,...It moves us not. Great God ! I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will...this, for everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us not.—Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...: Little we нее in nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This sea pursuits of literature pee«.« above every other...but и mediocrity In them, merit* the pre-eminence suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...powers : I/ittle we see in nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This sea rn ; Have sight of Proteus coming from the sea ; Or...September :l, 1R03. Earth has not anything to show suckled in a creed outworn ; Ко might I, standing on this pleasant lea. Have glimpses that would... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 pages
...powers ; Little we see in Nature that is ours : We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This sea that bares her bosom to the moon ; The winds that...moves us not. — Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 540 pages
...powers ; Little we Bee in Nature that is ours : We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This sea that bares her bosom to the moon ; The winds that...moves us not.— Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 544 pages
...powers ; Little we see in Nature that is ours : We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This sea that bares her bosom to the moon ; The winds that...moves us not — Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1845 - 572 pages
...we see in nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This sea, that bears her bosom to the moon; The winds, that will be howling...It moves us not. Great God ! I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed out-worn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 542 pages
...powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours : We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This sea that bares her bosom to the moon ; The winds that...this, for everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us not.—Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1845 - 540 pages
...that bears her bosom to the moon ; The winds, that will be howling at all hours, And are up gathered now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for everything,...It moves us not. Great God ! I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed out-worn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
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