Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly - Page 10edited by - 1838Full view - About this book
| Portugal. [Appendix.] - 1852 - 134 pages
...then might find in himself a power greater than ever to appreciate the pathos of him who sang — " The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch on man's mortality." The spring is also the season when the traveller can best calculate on witnessing... | |
| Arts - 1853 - 390 pages
...early rising ; and during the present month in particular : — The innocent brightness of a new-born, day Is lovely yet : The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That watches o'er the year's mortality. It is just now that the garden contains... | |
| 1848 - 708 pages
...saying, " We feel — we feel it all, but we will not yield !" " The innocent brightness of a new-born day Is lovely yet ; The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality." Considering it, not as a duty, but... | |
| University of Sydney - 1853 - 810 pages
...As in a gentle weather. (/) those cataracts and breaks That humour interposed too often makes. (0) The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. (h) A cotter howkin in a sheugh Wi' dirty stanes biggin a dyke, Baring a quarry, and siclike, Himsel',... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...channels fret, Ev'n more than when it rippl'd lightly as they; The innocent brightness of a new-born day Is lovely yet; The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from the eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. Wordsworth. Go to the dull church-yard and see Those... | |
| Samuel Osgood - Bible - 1853 - 294 pages
...channels fret Even more than when I tripped lightly as they ; The innocent brightness of a new-born day Is lovely yet ; The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. To me the meanest flower that blows... | |
| Theodore Parker - Sermons - 1853 - 450 pages
...give him the same delight which would come thereof in a world free from such society of suffering. ' " The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality." Now the pain which comes from this... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...they; The innocent brightness of a new-bom Day la lovely yet ; The Clouds that gather round the getting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath...palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we lire, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears. To me the meanest flower that blows can gire Thoughts... | |
| Thomas Noon Talfourd - English essays - 1854 - 350 pages
...channels fret, Even more than when I iripp'd lightly as they ; The innocent brightness of a new-born Day Is lovely yet ; The Clouds that gather round the...setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That lunli kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 384 pages
...channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lightly as they ; The innocent brightness of a new-born Day Is lovely yet ; The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other... | |
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