There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day,... The Ladies' Companion - Page 1721857Full view - About this book
| Thomas Browne Browne - 1838 - 274 pages
...Wordsworth's ode is the first :— " There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream. The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day,... | |
| William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...Bound each to each by natural piety. I. There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, To earth, and every common sight, To me did seem, Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night... | |
| 1839 - 914 pages
...farewell for another month. YOUTH. ' There was a time when meadow, grove and stream, The earth, and every common sight To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light,— The glory and the freshness of a dream! It is not now as it hath been of yore, — The things, which I have seen, 1 now... | |
| 1839 - 446 pages
...FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD. There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night... | |
| Childhood - 1841 - 384 pages
...each to each by natural piety." I. THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light,— The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day,... | |
| 1844 - 514 pages
...rules in nature. He too could say, " There was a time when meadow, grove, and Btream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream." Childhood is the period when sympathy with nature is the quickest and freshest,... | |
| 1844 - 1022 pages
...rules in nature. He too could say, " There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream." Childhood is the period when sympathy with nature is the quickest and freshest,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 pages
...early Childhood,' where he exclaims — There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night... | |
| 1844 - 514 pages
...too could say, " There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common eight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream." Childhood is the period when sympathy with nature is the quickest and freshest,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...each by natural piety. See page 54. TH ERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn whereso'er I may, By night or... | |
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