 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...thou provoke The Years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight,...upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! 0 joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...dost thou provoke The Years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight,...upon thee with a weight, Heavy as. frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy !' that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...thou provoke The Years to bring the inevitable yoke, v Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight,...upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...dost thou provoke The Years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upop thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...thou provoke The Y'ears to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? truly, at all times, the storm — that drives The Traveller to a she thce with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...cnrthly freight, And custom lie upon thce with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! Ojoy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers Wlial was so fugitive! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 378 pages
...dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight....upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life .' O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That Nature yet remembers... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1832 - 378 pages
...provoke The Years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Pull soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And...upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! 9O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 332 pages
...mind, that I cannot forbear to quote the passage : — " O joy ! that in our embers Is something thai doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in mo doth breed Perpetual benedictions ; not indeed For that which is most worthy to bo blest, Delight... | |
 | Theology - 1837 - 436 pages
...something of the child's heart stays with us to the end, amidst the thickening clouds of pride and sin. " O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive ! " Had the deep, articulate meaning of the immortal ode, from which I quote, reached our inner sense,... | |
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Thou little child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Full soon thy soul shall have... 
