 It irk'd him to be here, he could not rest. He loved each simple joy the country yields, He loved his mates; but yet he could not keep, For that a shadow lour'd on the fields, Here with the shepherds and the silly sheep.  New Poems - Page 65by Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Constance Louisa Maynard - 1910 - 296 pages
...torn by the desire to help and redeem. We hear his friend lamenting him : It irked him to be here ; he could not rest. He loved each simple joy the country...of men unblest He knew, which made him droop, and fitted his head. He went ; his piping took a troubled sound Of storms that rage outside our happy ground.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1910 - 56 pages
...the world and wave of men depart ; But Thyrsis of his own will went away. It irk'd him to be here, he could not rest. He loved each simple joy the country...mates; but yet he could not keep, For that a shadow lour'd on the fields, Here with the shepherds and the silly sheep. Some life of men unblest He knew,... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 968 pages
...the world and wave of men depart; But Thyrsis of his own will went away. It irk'd him to be here, he dancing brine, And an awning drooped the mast below,...purple fine, That neither noontide nor starshine N lour'd on the fields, Here with the shepherds and the silly sheep. Some life of men unblest He knew,... | |
 | 1910 - 368 pages
...simple joy the country yields, He loved his mates ; but yet he could not keep, For that a shadow lour'd on the fields, Here with the shepherds and the silly...of men unblest He knew, which made him droop, and fill'd his head. He went ; his piping took a troubled sound Of storms that rage outside our happy ground... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 810 pages
...simple joy the country yields, He loved his mates; but yet he could not keep, For that a shadow lower'd on the fields, Here with the shepherds and the silly sheep. Some life of men unhlest He knew, which made him droop, and filled his head. He went; his piping took a troubled sound... | |
 | Francis Bickley - 1911 - 140 pages
...the world and wave of men depart ; But Thyrsis of his own will went away. It irk'd him to be here, he could not rest. He loved each simple joy the country...mates ; but yet he could not keep, For that a shadow lower 'd on the fields, Here with the shepherds and the silly sheep. Some life of men unblest He knew,... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1911 - 792 pages
...world and wave of men depart ; But Thyrsis of his own will went away. 40 It irk'd him to be here, he could not rest. He loved each simple joy the country...mates ; but yet he could not keep, For that a shadow lower'd on the fields, Here with the shepherds and the silly sheep. Some life of men unblest He knew,... | |
 | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Tenney Frank, Harold Fredrik Cherniss, Henry Thompson Rowell - 1911 - 540 pages
...Thyrsis, where the restless temperament and troubled life of his poet friend become in pastoral metaphor: He loved each simple joy the country yields, He loved...mates ; but yet he could not keep, For that a shadow lour'd on the fields, Here with the shepherds and the silly sheep. Some life of men unblest He knew,... | |
 | Upton Sinclair - 1911 - 686 pages
...despair." So she whispered; and he answered her— "He loved his mates; but yet he could not keep, Here with the shepherds and the silly sheep. Some...of men unblest He knew, which made him droop, and filed his head. He went; his piping took a troubled sound Of storms that rage outside our happy ground."... | |
 | 1911 - 460 pages
...eine letzte Huldigung von dem ihm als Dichter und Menschen geistesverwandten Matthew Arnold: ". . . He loved each simple joy the country yields, He loved his mates; but yet he conld not keep, For that a shadow loioer'd on the fields, Here with the shepherd and the silly sheep... | |
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