 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 362 pages
...thinking infancy ; When of thy gallant chivalry I read, And hugged the volume on my sleepless bed ! O England ! — dearer far than life is dear, If I...hear Thy green leaves rustle, or thy torrents roar ! But how can He be faithless to the past, » Whose soul, intolerant of base decline, Saw in thy virtue... | |
 | John Scott - France - 1821 - 532 pages
...thinking infancy ; When of thy gallant chivalry I read, And hugg'd the volume on my sleepless bed, O, England ! dearer far than life is dear, If I forget thy prowess, never more Be thy ungrateful son allow'd to hear Thy green leaves rustle or thy torrents roar !" There is a deep, rich, exquisite feeling... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1902 - 742 pages
...conspicuous only by its absence. How different is the note sounded by Wordsworth in his Thanksgiving Ode: " O England !—dearer far than life is dear, If I forget...hear Thy green leaves rustle, or thy torrents roar! " But the poet of Imperialism goes yet further from the faith of patriotism when he asks the scornful... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 482 pages
...thinking infancy ; When of thy gallant chivalry I read, And hugged the volume on my sleepless bed ! O England ! — dearer far than life is dear, If I...hear Thy green leaves rustle, or thy torrents roar ! But how can He be faithless to the past, Whose soul, intolerant of base decline, Saw in thy virtue... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...read, And hugged the volume on my sleepless bed ! O England ! — dearer far than life is dear, If 1 forget thy prowess, never more Be thy ungrateful Son...hear Thy green leaves rustle, or thy torrents roar ! Out how can He be faithless to the past, Whose soul, intolerant of base decline, Saw in thy virtue... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...thy gallant chivalry I read. And hugged the volume on my sleepless bedl . O England ! — dearer fnr than life is dear, If I forget thy prowess, never more Be tliy ungrateful son allowed to hear Thy green leaves rustle, or thy torrents roar ! But how can He... | |
 | Benjamin Bailey - English poetry - 1831 - 138 pages
...my Country, and deplore Thy future downfal, end of all things dear ! Ah ! if I could forget thee, " never more Be thy ungrateful son allowed to hear Thy green leaves rustle, and thy torrents roar*." * Wordsworth's Ode on the General Thanksgiving, 1816. v. ENGLAND, with all... | |
 | William Finden - 1838 - 284 pages
...I., 1297. The present members, returned at the last election, in 1837, are CE Rumbold, Esq , and WG Wilshere, Esq. The column erected to the memory of...I forget thy prowess, never more Be thy ungrateful aon allowed to hear Thy green leaves rustle, or tliy torrents roar !' * Marchantius, in his Flandria... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...than life is dear, If one there be Of all thy progeny Who can forget thy prowess, never more Be that ungrateful Son allowed to hear Thy green leaves rustle or thy torrents roar. As springs the lion from his den, As from a forest-brake Upstarts a glistering snake, The bold Arch-despot... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...than life is dear, If one there be Of all thy progeny Who can forget thy prowess, never more Be that ungrateful Son allowed to hear Thy green leaves rustle or thy torrents roar. As springs the lion from his den, As from a forest-brake Upstarts a glistering snake, The bold Arch-despot... | |
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O England ! dearer far than life is dear, If I forget thy prowess, never more Be thy ungrateful son allowed to hear Thy green leaves rustle, or thy torrents roar. 
