Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories... The English Poets: Wordsworth to Dobell - Page 57edited by - 1894Full view - About this book
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. Earth fills her...hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the child among his new-born blisses, — A six years' darling of a pigmy size ! See, where... | |
| William Howitt, Mary Botham Howitt - 1852 - 486 pages
...begin to close Upon the growing boy. The farther he goes, the more the heavenly inborn light " fades into the light of common day." Earth fills her lap...inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known, And the imperial palace whence he came. This is the gnosticism of a man comfortably wandering amid the... | |
| Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 pages
...priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. Earth fills her...hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the child among his new-born blisses, A six years' darling of a pygmy size. See, where "mid... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...Earth's days are number'd, nor remote her doom; As mortal, tho' less transient, than her sons. Young. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings...hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Wordsworth. Oh, there is not lost One of earth's charms from off her bosom yet, After the lapse of... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 pages
...independent of himself what yet he could not contemplate at all, were it not a modification of his own being. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings...hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. * 3£ ' vfc -# * # ® O joy ! that in our embers Is something' that doth live, That nature yet remembers... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...independent of himself what yet he could not contemplate at all, were it not a modification of his own being. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings...hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. * * * * * * » 0 joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 512 pages
...Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own : Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And e'en with something of a mother's mind. And no unworthy...known And that imperial palace whence he came:— WORDSWORTH. present commentary, in the fifth, sixth, and seventh stanzas of Dr. Henry More's poem ou... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 494 pages
...Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own : Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And e'en with something of a mother's mind, And no unworthy...hath known And that imperial palace whence he came : — WORDSWORTH. present commentary, in the fifth, sixth, and seventh stanzas of Dr. Henry More's... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1853 - 300 pages
...Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. Earth fills her...something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, 9 ODE. The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...independent of himself what yet he could not contemplate at all, were it not a modification of his own being. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings...hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. ****»*» 0 joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was... | |
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