For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity ; Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with... Bulletin - Page 5771904Full view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1871 - 622 pages
...mourn nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I .have learned To look on Nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...mourn, nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1871 - 350 pages
...mourn, nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
| Mary Linskill - 1871 - 338 pages
... 600039894$ I JL » t t' TALES OF THE NORTH RIDING. BY STEPHEN YOEKE. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity. — WOKDSWOHTH. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: SMITH, ELDEE AND CO.,... | |
| Poems - 1872 - 362 pages
...mourn, nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed ; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.... | |
| 1872 - 660 pages
...mourn, nor murmur : other gifts Have followed, — for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the...hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
| 1873 - 712 pages
...mourn, nor murmur; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity. Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
| 1873 - 808 pages
...to other poems of that writer whom in his baser moods Lord Byron used to affect to despise : — " I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1873 - 840 pages
...to other poems of that writer whom in his baser moods Lord Byron used to affect to despise : — " I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
| John Tyndall - 1874 - 132 pages
...regarded as a forecast and religious vitalization of the latest and deepest scientific truth, — ' For I have learned To look on nature ; not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
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