 | William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...thou silent ? Is thy love a plant Why art Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air t^011 Silent ? Of absence withers what was once so fair ? Is there...care, The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For nought but what thy happiness could spare. Speak — though this soft warm heart, once free to hold... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh! The difference to me ! TO A DISTANT FRIEND. WHY art thou silent! Is thy love a plant Of such weak...have my thoughts for thee been vigilant, Bound to thy sen-ice with unceasing care — The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For nought but what thy... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1835 - 262 pages
...eye, They shrank not into shade ; Great was their bliss, the honor high To them and nature paid ! WHY art thou silent ! Is thy love a plant Of such weak...grant ? Yet have my thoughts for thee been vigilant (As would my deeds have been) with hourly care The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For nought... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1835 - 376 pages
...into shade ; Great was their bliss, the honour high To them and nature paid ! WHY art thou silent I Is thy love a plant Of such weak fibre that the treacherous...grant ? Yet have my thoughts for thee been vigilant (As would my deeds have been) with hourly care, The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For nought... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Leather bindings (Bookbinding) - 1835 - 420 pages
...into shade ; Great was their bliss, the honor high To them and nature paid ! WHY art thou silent ! fs thy love a plant Of such weak fibre that the treacherous...grant ? Yet have my thoughts for thee been vigilant (As would my deeds have been) with hourly care The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For nought... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1837 - 376 pages
...Tears of delight, that testified how true To life thou art, and, in thy truth, how dear ! LIII. AVuv art thou silent ! Is thy love a plant Of such weak...grant ? Yet have my thoughts for thee been vigilant (As would my deeds have been) with hourly care, The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For nought... | |
 | A Montagu Woodford - 1841 - 320 pages
...Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. 214 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. " WHY art thou silent ? is thy love a plant Of such weak...grant ? Yet have my thoughts for thee been vigilant (As would my deeds have been) with hourly care, The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For nought... | |
 | Album - 1841 - 158 pages
...stirs, and hour that flies, Sweet as thy smile, and radiant as thine eyes ! DELTA. THE REPROACH. Why art thou silent ? Is thy love a plant Of such weak...so fair ? Is there no debt to pay, no boon to grant ? I Yet have my thoughts for thee been vigilant (As would my deeds have been) with hourly care, The... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1844 - 556 pages
...Li. It is in the last published volume of his poems, though probably written many years before. " Why art thou silent ? Is thy love a plant Of such weak...grant ? Yet have my thoughts for thee been vigilant, (As would my deeds have been) with hourly care, The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For nought... | |
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Why art thou silent ? Is thy love a plant Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air Of absence withers what was once so fair ? Is there no debt to pay, no boon to grant ? Yet have my thoughts for thee been vigilant, Bound to thy service with unceasing... 
