 Like clouds that rake the mountainsummits, Or waves that own no curbing hand. How fast has brother followed brother From sunshine to the sunless land ! Yet I, whose lids from infant slumber Were earlier raised, remain to hear A timid voice, that asks...  Beulah - Page 196by Augusta Jane Evans - 1859 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1835
...frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth. Like clouds that rake the mountain-summits, Or waves that own no curbing hand, How fast has brother followed brother From sunshine to the sunless laud ! Yet I, whose lids from infant slumbers Were earlier raised, remain to hear A timid volte, that... | |
 | 1836
...frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth. Like clouds that rake the mountain summits, Or waves that own no curbing hand, How fast has brother...followed brother From sunshine to the sunless land ! Yet I, whose lids from infant slumbers Were earlier raised, remain to hear A timid voice, that asks... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836
...warning he has felt in the death of his contemporaries : "Like clouds that rake the mountain summits, Or waves that own no curbing hand. How fast has brother...followed brother From sunshine to the sunless land ! "Yet I, whose lids from infant slumbers Were earlier raised, remain to hear A timid voice, that asks... | |
 | English essays - 1836
...frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth. Like clouds that rake the mountain summits, Or waves that own no curbing hand. How fast has Brother...followed Brother From sunshine to the sunless land I Yet I, whose lids from infant slumbers Were earlier raised, remain to hear A timid voice, that asks... | |
 | 1892
...the braes of Yarrow, Has closed the Shepherd-poet's eyes. Like clouds that rake the mountain-summits, Or waves that own no curbing hand, How fast has brother...followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land I Yet I, whose lids from infant slumber, Were earlier raised, remain to hear A timid voice, that asks... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 619 pages
...frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from hie lonely hearth. Like clouds that rake the mountain-summits, Or waves that own no curbing hand, How fast has brother...followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land ! Our haughty life is crowned with darkness, Like London with its own black wreath, On which with thee,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 619 pages
...frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth. Like clouds that rake the mountain-summits, Or waves that own no curbing hand, How fast has brother...followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land ! Our haughty life is crowned with darkness, Like London with its own black wreath, On which with thee,... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847
...and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth. " Like clouds that robe the mountain summits, Or waves that own no curbing hand, How fast has Brother...followed Brother, From sunshine to the sunless land ! " Yet I, whose lids from infant slumbers Were earlier raised, remain to hear A timid voice that asks... | |
 | 1850
...frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth. like clouds that rake the mountain-summits, Or waves that own no curbing hand, How fast has brother...followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land ! Yet I, whose lids from infant slumber Were earlier raised, remain to hear A timid voice, that asks... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 727 pages
...frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth. Like clouds that rake* the mountain-summits, laud ! * This expression is borrowed from a sonnet by Mr. G. Bell, the auihor of a small volume of... | |
| |
