| Samuel Carter Hall - 1871 - 532 pages
...mankind owes much. " She gave me," writes the poet, — " She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And numble cares, and delicate fears, A heart, the fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and joy." She did more than that : she dispelled foreboding shadows ; " softened down an over-sternness;" planted... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...I Together visited. She looked at it as if she feared it ; Still wishing, dreading to be near it : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares,...fountain of sweet tears; And love, and thought, and joy. TO A BUTTERFLY. I'VE watched you now a full half-hour, Self-poised upon that yellow flower; And, little... | |
| J. Campbell Shairp - 1872 - 364 pages
...to the more hidden beauties, his heart to the gentler affections : — " She gave me eyes, she j?ave me ears : And humble cares, and delicate fears; A...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... | |
| Henry Lonsdale - 1873 - 360 pages
...Dorothy, for whom he bore through life the deepest love. Her influence upon him is thus set forth :— " She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares...fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and joy." By the death of his father, the poet and his three brothers and sister, became orphans in the year... | |
| HENRY B. RIDGAWAY - 1873 - 498 pages
...sister, Alfred could have said of his mother : " She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and joy." Her native sense, delicate tact, moral ascendency, firmness of discipline, religious fervor, feminine... | |
| Mary Ann Reynolds Page - 1873 - 226 pages
...humanity. God bless her seeing eye, and wise and loving heart ! " He gave her eyes, he gave her ears, A heart the fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and joy." — Ed.] We see very few good horses here. They are very seldom used except with carriages. The mule... | |
| Dorothy Wordsworth - 1874 - 378 pages
...her softening influence, and sowed in it the needed flowers, and touched it with mellowing colours. ' She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares...fountain of sweet tears And love, and thought and joy.' Elsewhere in the ' Prelude ' he describes how at one time his soul had got too much under the dominion... | |
| John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...muscle — this way or that. The Borderers. Act iii. The Child is father of the Man,2 My Heart Leaps Up. She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares,...fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy. The Sparrow's Nest. The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door. Lucy Gray. Stanza 2. A simple... | |
| T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874 - 492 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. A FAREWELL. FAREWELL, thou little nook of mountain ground, Thou rocky corner in the lowest stair Of... | |
| Henry Bascom Ridgaway - 1874 - 352 pages
...Alfred could have said of his mother :— " She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares, delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and joy." Her native sense, delicate tact, moral ascendency, firmness of discipline, religious fervour, feminine... | |
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