 The world is too much with us. The world is too much with us ; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ; Little we see in Nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon...  The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly - Page 9edited by - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...that bares her bosom to the moon , The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gather'd now like sleeping flowers, — For this, for every...It moves us not. Great God ! I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - English poetry - 1878 - 376 pages
...will be howling at all hours And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us not. Great God ! I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1878 - 246 pages
...will be howling at all hours And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us not Great God ! I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...will be howling at all hours, And are upgathcred now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us not. Great God ! I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - 1878 - 378 pages
...be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us not. — Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1879 - 362 pages
...soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers : Little we see in Nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This Sea that...moves us not. — Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - History - 1988 - 264 pages
...We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon I This sea, that bares her bosom to the moon ; 'Vli.- winds, that -will be howling at all hours, And are...It moves us not. Great God ! I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | Charles Wegener - Philosophy - 1992 - 244 pages
...will be howling at all hours. And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. — Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn. . . . Those who rather enjoy being cosmically distressed by telling "sad... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. — Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | Robert Pogue Harrison - Nature - 2009 - 305 pages
...will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, For this, for everything we are out of tune; It moves us not. — Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
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