The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to BayleySamuel Carter Hall H. G. Bohn, 1846 - English poetry |
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... youth , who daily farther from the east Must travel , still is Nature's priest , And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At length the man perceives it die away , And fade into the light of common day . Earth fills her lap ...
... youth , who daily farther from the east Must travel , still is Nature's priest , And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At length the man perceives it die away , And fade into the light of common day . Earth fills her lap ...
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... . I would recal a vision , which I dream'd Perchance in sleep , -for in itself a thought , A slumbering thought , is capable of years , And curdles a long life into one hour . I saw two beings in the hues of youth Standing 16 BYRON .
... . I would recal a vision , which I dream'd Perchance in sleep , -for in itself a thought , A slumbering thought , is capable of years , And curdles a long life into one hour . I saw two beings in the hues of youth Standing 16 BYRON .
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... youth , were there Gazing ; the one , on all that was beneath- Fair as herself - but the boy gazed on her : And both were young , and one was beautiful ; And both were young , yet not alike in youth ; As the sweet moon on the horizon's ...
... youth , were there Gazing ; the one , on all that was beneath- Fair as herself - but the boy gazed on her : And both were young , and one was beautiful ; And both were young , yet not alike in youth ; As the sweet moon on the horizon's ...
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... Youth comes ; the toils and cares of life Torment the restless mind ; Where shall the tired and harass'd heart Its consolation find ? Then is not Youth , as Fancy tells , Life's summer prime of joy ? Ah no ! for hopes too long delay'd ...
... Youth comes ; the toils and cares of life Torment the restless mind ; Where shall the tired and harass'd heart Its consolation find ? Then is not Youth , as Fancy tells , Life's summer prime of joy ? Ah no ! for hopes too long delay'd ...
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... Youth . So reaches he the latter stage Of this our mortal pilgrimage , With feeble step and slow ; New ills that latter stage await , And old Experience learns too late That all is vanity below . Life's vain delusions are gone by , Its ...
... Youth . So reaches he the latter stage Of this our mortal pilgrimage , With feeble step and slow ; New ills that latter stage await , And old Experience learns too late That all is vanity below . Life's vain delusions are gone by , Its ...
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