 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
 | Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - 1874 - 314 pages
...began and read the first stanza : — 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 has been of yore ; Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day,... | |
 | Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - 1874 - 300 pages
...began and read the first stanza: — 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 has been of yore; Turn wheresoever I may, By night or day,... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 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. 5 It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pages
...FROM RECOLLECTIONS or 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 hatli been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...Recollection! 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 whcresoe'er I may, By night... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pages
...RECOLLECTIONS Of EARLY CHILDHOOD. I. Tarn was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and sed joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus, from afar, each dim-discover'd scene More pl freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore : Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day,... | |
 | Jay Parini - 1997 - 294 pages
...Wordsworth says in his famous "Ode" (1807), 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... | |
 | Allison James, Alan Prout - 1997 - 286 pages
...verbalized, romanticism of Wordsworth's 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. In Disneyland even nature is miniaturized and beautifully but carefully ordered.... | |
 | Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Irina Tweedie - 1998 - 303 pages
...describes this sad transition: 84 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 whereso'er I may, By night or... | |
 | Jonathan David Fineberg, Jonathan Fineberg - 2001 - 306 pages
...maturity has caused the loss of wonder: 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... | |
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