 Shalt show us how divine a thing A Woman may be made. Thy thoughts and feelings shall not die, Nor leave thee, when grey hairs are nigh A melancholy slave; But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave.  Dorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister's Love - Page 58by Edmund Lee - 1886 - 214 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...shall not die, Nor leave thee, when grey hairs are nigh, A melancholy slave ; But an old age, alive and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. " — Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claim'd fy whoever shall find." By... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...thing A Woman may be made. Thy thoughts and feelings shall not die, Nor leave thee when grey-hairs are nigh A melancholy slave ; But an old age serene...as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. XII. LINES WR1TTBN IN EARLY SPRING. 1 HEARD a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined,... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...thing A Woman may be made. Thy thoughts and feelings shall not die, Nor leave thee when grey-hairs are nigh A melancholy slave; But an old age serene...as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. XII. LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING. 1 HEARD a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...thing A Woman may be made. Thy thoughts and feelings shall not die, Nor leave thee when grey-hairs are nigh A melancholy slave ; But an old age serene...as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. X. LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SFRING. I HEARD a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined,... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - Conduct of life - 1831 - 274 pages
...saucebox; but what say you to the rest? " Thy thoughts and feelings shall not die, Nor leave thee when gray hairs are nigh, A melancholy slave ; But an old age,...as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave." " Why, papa, if you think it is not too late for the poet, and too soon for me, I really think he would... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1832 - 378 pages
...and old. There, healthy as a Shepherd-boy, And treading among flowers of joy, That at no season fade, Thou, while thy Babes around thee cling, Shalt shew...as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. X. LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING. I HEARD a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton (novelist.) - 1834 - 430 pages
...ebbing waters of despair. CHAPTER XII. Thy thoughts and feelings shall not die Nor leave thee, when gray hairs are nigh, A melancholy slave; But an old age...and bright And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead true to the grave. SHELLEV. A FEW short weeks after the occurrence of the events I have just narrated,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1859 - 672 pages
..." clear child of nature" it addresses that her thoughts and feelings shall not die, nor leave her, when grey hairs are nigh, a melancholy slave ; " but...lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave."t But of cheery and charming old ladies of a more or less worldly habit, Walpole saw much, and... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 826 pages
...religious principles broke forth, with mild and steady effulgence, shedding cheerfulness and joy upon " An old age, serene and bright, ' And lovely as a Lapland night." Though he had so long occupied an eminent place in the political world, it was not his native sphere.... | |
 | 1892 - 848 pages
...man seemed to realize in his own person the sentiment of those beautiful lines by Wordsworth : — Thy thoughts and feelings shall not die. Nor leave...as a Lapland night. Shall lead thee to thy grave. His sweet spirit was manifested in the last words his daughter remembered him saying as she watched... | |
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