| William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...shall head the flock of war ! " Alas ! the ferment harper did not know That for a tranquil soul the lav was framed, Who, long compelled in humble walks to...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage virtue of the race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead : Nor did he change,... | |
| 1863 - 636 pages
...nature. Even as he wrote of the good Lord 'Clifford : "Love bad he found in huts where poor men He ; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence...sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." The false, factitious life of cities would have rendered him powerless. Matthew Arnold, writing of Arthur... | |
| Alexander Simpson Patterson - 1862 - 236 pages
...delight, alone in summer-shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts." "Love had he found in hnts where poor men lie ; His daily teachers had been woods...sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." The number and variety of Wordsworth's poems are astonishing. They strike into almost every department... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1863 - 608 pages
...answer is simple. He was true to himself and to nature. Even as he wrote of the good Lord Clifford : " Love had he found in huts where poor men lie • .,...sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." The false, factitious life of cities would have rendered hira powerless. Matthew Arnold, writing of Arthur... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 772 pages
...ancestors restored, Like a re-appearing Star, Like a glory from afar, first thall head the floek of war F " Alas ! the fervent harper did not know, That for a...woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry ity, The sleep that is among the lonely hilli." The words themselves in the foregoing extracts, are,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 770 pages
...restored, Like a re-appcnring Star, Like a glory from afar, Firtt ihall head the flock of wtrF' " Alas 1 the fervent harper did not know, That for a tranquil...tamed. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie ; TTia daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that i> in the starry sky, The sleep that... | |
| Robert Bloomfield - 1864 - 408 pages
...bloom of a, field. VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT BLOOMFIELD. From Blackwood's Magazine for Sept. 1823. Love had he found in huts where poor men lie, His...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. WORDSWORTH. SWEET, simple poet, thou art gone ! And shall no parting tear be shed, By those to whom... | |
| 1864 - 694 pages
...hills." " The Oak and the Broom" " Love hail he found in huts where poor men lie, His daily teacher« had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills." " Song at the Feast of Brougham C/atU." " POETRY," says Leigh Hunt, " is the utterance of a passion... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1865 - 318 pages
...minstrel did not know How, by Heaven's grace, this Clifford's heart was framed : How he, long forced in humble walks to go, Was softened into feeling,...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage virtue of the Race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead : Nor did he change... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1865 - 316 pages
...minstrel did not know How, by Heaven's grace, this Clifford's heart was framed : How he, long forced in humble walks to go, Was softened into feeling,...starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage virtue of the Race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead : Nor did he change... | |
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