| William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...not to be put by ; 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...shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! VIII. O joy ! that in our embers Is something... | |
| 1839 - 446 pages
...blessedness at strife ? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as...live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive 1 The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which... | |
| Childhood - 1841 - 384 pages
...not to be put by; 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...shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost and deep almost as life. IX. O joy ! that in our embers Is something... | |
| American poetry - 1862 - 512 pages
...freedom on thy Being's height. Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring th' inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness...shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...not to be put by ; Thou little child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-bom freedom on thy being's height. Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke...shall have her earthly freight And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something... | |
| William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...not to be put by ; 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...shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thec with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! 0 joy ! that ¡n our embers Is something... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...not to be put by ; 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...yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Fall soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy... | |
| 1846 - 436 pages
...not to be put by ! 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...shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! IX. O, joy ! that in our embers Is something... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest paine dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable...shall have her earthly freight And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something... | |
| George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - English language - 1847 - 374 pages
...laugh at them. Coriohnus, iy. 2. since fate inevitable Subdues us, and omnipotent decree PL, ii. 197. Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The...yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ! WORDSWORTH. ' Ode m Intimation!,' +CJ Exercise. His affairs were so deeply involved, that an exposure... | |
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