 Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.  The Oral Study of Literature - Page 400by Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 pages
...eternal Silence : truths that wake, To perish never — Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor, Nor man nor boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy,...travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. X. Then sing, ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...eternal silence : truths that wake, To perish never, — Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor, them were dead, Or if men smote it with a staff smarte...pinched was ; Her nose was strait; her eyes were grey as shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. x. Then sing, ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song... | |
 | Alagiyavanna Mukaveṭi - 1871 - 280 pages
...fulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From GOD, Who is our home I Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far...travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore ! " But to revert to the quotation : " How can the... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1871 - 350 pages
...light of all our seeing. It is from these that we have ecstasy almost as a logical conclusion ; for Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far...travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. We have no space to particularize the felicity... | |
 | Celeste Marguerite Schenck - 1988 - 248 pages
...epithalamic chant recalls Lycidas's retrieval from the waves and Milton's seaside moment of initiated vision: Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far...travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. (1I. 162-68) There is more than regressive compulsion... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 pages
...than to endure their demands. The resolving image of the ninth stanza precisely stations the poet: Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland...travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore, "Calm" here is to temperament as "inland" is to... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 1992 - 414 pages
...the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish...travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore!10 The first of the two excerpts given here provides... | |
 | Nicholas V. Riasanovsky - 1995 - 128 pages
...The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far...travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret,... | |
 | Peter L. Rudnytsky - 1993 - 360 pages
...present, and future together. There is the copresence of the child's vision still active within the adult. Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far...travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. (11. 161-68) This is the climax to the rich vein... | |
 | G. Avery Lee - 1991 - 188 pages
...trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far...travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. Get the beauty of those lines by reading them again:... | |
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