Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have... the poets of lhkeland wordsworth - Page 345by T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874Full view - About this book
| William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness...upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! VIII. O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 412 pages
...freedom on thy being's height. Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke. Thus blindly with thy blessedness...upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness...freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy us frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitahle yoke, Thus hlindly with thy hlessedness at strife ? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly...upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our emhers Is something that doth live, That nature yet rememhers... | |
| Childhood - 1841 - 384 pages
...freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness...weight, Heavy as frost and deep almost as life. IX. O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive... | |
| American poetry - 1862 - 512 pages
...do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave ; Thou over whom thy immortality Broods like the day,...lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...freedom on thy being's height. Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness...lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers... | |
| William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness...shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thec with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! 0 joy ! that ¡n our embers Is something... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Fall soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And...upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep ahuost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers... | |
| Charles Lanman - East (U.S.) - 1845 - 288 pages
...on his mother's arm." " Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own." " Full soon thy soul shalt have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as fate, and deep almost as life." 0 joy, that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature... | |
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