 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...her, being then A little prattler among men. The blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares,...fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy. m. TO A BUTTERFLY. "What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1861 - 402 pages
...good that they do not include. You know what the poet says, — " She gave them eyes, she gave them ears, And humble cares, and delicate fears ; A heart,...fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and jo;." Is it nothing to hear of such gifts? "Childhood," says a French author, " has natural graces... | |
 | Ellen L. Brown - 1861 - 286 pages
...and whether it be right."— PEOV. xx. 11. " The blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy ; She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares, and delicate fears, A heart, the fountain of eweet tears, And love, and thought, and joy." WOBDSWOBTH. Alice Culhs.— p. 7. */•.,„/.] STORY... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 272 pages
...— " The blessing of my later years Was with me when I was a boy : She gave me hopes, she gave me fears, A heart the fountain of sweet tears. * # * * And love, and thought, and joy." And elsewhere he describes her, in a philosophic poem, still in MS., as one who planted flowers and... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 270 pages
...: — " The blessing of my later years Was with me when I was a boy: She gave me hopes, she gave me fears, A heart the fountain of sweet tears. * * * * And love, and thought, and joy." And elsewhere he describes her, in a philosophic poem, still in MS., as one who planted flowers and... | |
 | Book - 1864 - 396 pages
...her, being then A little prattler among men. The blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares,...fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy. WORDSWORTH. THE PARROT. PARROT from the Spanish main, Full young and early caged came o'er, With bright... | |
 | 1864 - 546 pages
...humanized him, opened his eye to the more hidden beauties, his heart to the gentler affections : " She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares,...fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and joy." If there were no other records of her than those brief extracts from her journal during the Highland... | |
 | 1864 - 744 pages
...gentler affections : — " She gave me eyes, she g*ve me ears, And humble carea, and delicate fcArs ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears, And love and thought and joy." If there were no other records of her than those brief extracte from her journal during the Highland... | |
 | 1865 - 980 pages
...existence. He is both self-centred and selfmoved; his mainspring is the will, yet he ought to have — " A heart, the fountain of sweet tears And love and thought and joy." Of this compound life of activity of mind, of intensity of passion, of vital personality, of pertinent... | |
 | 1867 - 974 pages
...blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy. She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And hnnible cares and delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy." And, in another poem, after describing his despondency at this season of his life, from the failure... | |
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The Blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares, and delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy. 
