 | English poetry - English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...was wet With points of morning dew. A basket on her head she bare; 4a Her brow was smooth and white : A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free : But we are press'd by heavy laws ; 45 And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad... | |
 | Edward Thring - English language - 1868 - 256 pages
...behind. The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they...a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore. * ' A thousand years.' Duration of time is put in English without any preposition before it. ANALYSIS.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 pages
...The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Arc quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage...strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age I* beautiful and free: But we are pressed by heavy laws; And often, glad no more, W« wear a face of... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 424 pages
...behind. The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they...a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore. If there be one who need bemoan His kindred laid in earth, The household hearts that were his own ;... | |
 | William Martin - Adventure and adventurers - 1870 - 360 pages
...The blackbird in the summer trees, The lark upon the hill, Let loose their carols when they please Are quiet when they wilL "With nature never do they...old age Is beautiful and free. "But we are pressed with heavy laws; And often glad no more, We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of vote."... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...The blackbird in the summer trees, The lark upon the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they...and their old age Is beautiful and free. But we are press'd with heavy laws ; And, often glad no more, We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1871 - 622 pages
...The blackbird in the summer trees, The lark upon the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they...wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore. If there is one who need bemoan His kindred laid in earth, The household hearts that were his own,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
..."The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Cullen Bryant " If there be one who need bemoan His kindred laid in earth, The household hearts that were his own,... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...hehind. The hlackhird amid leafy trees, The lark ahove the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they...strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is heautiful and free : But we are pressed hy heavy laws ; And often, glad no more, We wear a face of... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1871 - 358 pages
...The English reader will here be remindel of Wordsworth's exquisite itnnia: — "But we are press'd by heavy laws; And often, glad no more, We wear a. face of joy, because We have been glad of yore." sents; but at the same time he had no toleration for the studied theatrical effect, the accompaniment... | |
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The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free : But we are... 
