For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. " Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. Biographia Literaria - Page 118by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1907Full view - About this book
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...childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd, For the same sound is ill my ears, Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser...blackbird in the summer trees. The lark upon the hill, l*t loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. "With Nature never do they wage... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd, For the same sound is in my ears, Which in those days I heard. " Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser...black-bird in the summer trees, The lark upon th'e hill,, . I ,ct loose- their carols when they please* '^&rc quiet when they will. " With Nature never do tJiey... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. 133 " Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser...carols when they "please, Are quiet when they will. " With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see r A happy youth, and their old age Is... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For' the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. " Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind y Mourns less for what age takes away ' Than what it leaves behind. " The Blackbird in the summer trees,... | |
| Walter Scott - Scotland - 1816 - 328 pages
...heart is idly stirr'd, < •.- ' •• For the same sound is in my ears . Which in these days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay ; And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what time takes away, Than what he leaves behind. Well, time cures every wound, and though the scar may... | |
| England - 1819 - 782 pages
...objects which exhibit none of the harshness and discrepancy of the human world. •• The blackbird on the summer trees, The lark upon the hill, Let loose...carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. * One who had died of a broken bent. " With nature do they never wage A foolish strife ; they see A... | |
| England - 1819 - 792 pages
...objects which exhibit none of the harshness and discrepancy of the human world. " The blackbird on the summer trees, The lark upon the hill, Let loose...carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. * One who had died of a broken heart. S " With nature do they never wage A foolish strife ; they see... | |
| 1819 - 808 pages
...objects which exhibit none of the harshness and discrepancy of the human world. " The blackbird on the summer trees, The lark upon the hill, Let loose...carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. * One who had died of a broken heart. «' With nature do they never wage A foolish strife ; they see... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 248 pages
...childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd, For the same sound is in my ears Which in these days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay; And yet the wiser mind Mourns; less for what time takes away, Than what he leaves behind. Well, time cures every wound, and though the scar may... | |
| 1828 - 746 pages
...Chaise as still and peaceful as before.” - “TIME'S TAKINGS AND LEAVINGS. BY BERNARD BARTON, SSQ. Thus fares it still in our decay.; And yet the wiser...less for what Age takes away, Than what it leaves bebind.—WoRDswoRru. “WHAT does Age take away? Bloom from the cheek, and lustre from the eye, The... | |
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