 If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills! — No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.  The Longfellow birthday book, arranged by C. Dixon - Page 88by Henry Wadsworth [extracts] Longfellow - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Harriet Nokes - 1857 - 162 pages
...duty, For every gentle deed and friendly hand ! MEMORY OF THE COUNTRY. 19 MEMORY OF THE COUNTRY. " If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep Thy heart from fainting, and thy mind from sleep, Go to the woods and hills — No tears Dim the sweet look that nature wears." LONOFELLOW.... | |
 | James Williams (M.D.) - 1858 - 110 pages
...happily refer to the following beautiful passage of Longfellow, from his " Sunrise on the Hills." " If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows that...— No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears." The soil of the Heath is sandy and poor ; but underneath it lies the valuable mineral Fuller's earth.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 752 pages
...enjoyment, that mingles silently with the darker thoughts of the heart, and removes their bitterness. " If thou art worn and hard beset, With sorrows that...forget — If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep The heart from fainting, and the soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills ! — no tears Dim the... | |
 | 1859 - 148 pages
...answering to the sudden shot, thin smoke, Through thick-leaved branches, from the dingle . broke. f If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that...— No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears. \ ' LONGFELLOW. THE FOREST STREAM. DELIGHTFUL is this loneliness ; it calms My heart :/pleasant the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...Where, answering to the sudden shot, thin smoke, Through thick-leaved branches, from the dingle broke. If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that...— No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears. THEBE is a quiet spirit in these woods, That dwells where'er the gentle south wind blows ; Where, underneath... | |
 | Austin Jacobs Coolidge, John Brainard Mansfield - 1859 - 1110 pages
...soul, and find his way back, to breathe upon a languid world some of the purer atmosphere of love. " If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that...! No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears." There, " Thy expanding heart Shall feel a kindred with that loftier world To which thou art translated,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pages
...with the darker thoughts 'of the heart, and removes their bitterness. " If thou art worn and hfird beset With sorrows that thou wouldst forget, — If...heart from fainting, and thy soul from sleep,— Go to (he woods and hills ! — no tears I'itu the sweet look that Nature wears."2 Yet there are moods of... | |
 | Peru (Viceroyalty) - 1890 - 464 pages
...are as empty as wind-driven chaff, They know not the worth of Eternity's wheat. NATURE JOYOUS. "Come to the woods and hills, no tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears." Nature is joyous if we smile or sigh : The Spring's green lap is always filled with flowers ; Upon... | |
 | R. M. Coopland - 1859 - 484 pages
...any other way of getting home; when I hoped to join her. CHAPTER IX. THE JOUBNEY HOMEWARD. " If thon art worn and hard beset With sorrows that thou would'st forget, If thou wonld'st read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 514 pages
...Where, answering to the sudden shot, thin smoke, Through thick-leaved branches, from the dingle broke. If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that...— No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears. THE SPIRIT OF POETRY. THERE is a quiet spirit in these woods, That dwells where'er the gentle south-wind... | |
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