 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...feeling lulls us, when our dream of unearthly charms is tremendously broken by the shock of death: " A slumber did my spirit seal, I had no human fears: She seem'da thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force, She... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 pages
...funeral-bell shall ring, And all the congregation sing A Christian psalm for thee. slum6« &t& mp spirit sral. A SLUMBER, did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears...She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees ! Dion. FAIR is the swan, whose majesty, prevailing... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...heath, this calm, and quiet scene ; The memory of what has been, And never more will be. 1799. XI. A SLUMBER did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears...She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. 1799. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats on... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...This heath, this cahu, and quiet scene ; The memory of what has been, And never more will be. I799. A SLUMBER did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears...She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. 1799. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats on... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...This heath, this calm, and quiet scene ; The memory of what 1ms been, And never more will be. 179S. A SLUMBER did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears : She seemed a tiling that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force ; She neither... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 782 pages
...And in another he sings of his dead Lucy as if she had been a fossil in some sepulchral mine — ' No motion has she now, no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.' Indeed where his love verses are most graceful,... | |
 | John Wright (of Nottingham.) - English poetry - 1851 - 388 pages
...dared to leap Parnassus' steep, And struggle with the vast profound, In thus descanting upon sleep ? " A slumber did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears...She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees." No, Daddy, no ; nor can his mind Luxuriate in unfeigned... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...this calm and quiet scene ; The memory of what has been, And never more will be. 1799. XI. A SLTJMBEE did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears : She seemed...She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. 1799. XII. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - Folk literature, Irish - 1854 - 468 pages
...appears absurd to talk of her loveliness having had its peach-like bloom impaired. As Wordsworth says, " She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years." What the same true poet has said of that fair Lucy, who yet lives in his exquisite lyric, might have... | |
 | 1856 - 580 pages
...And in another he sings of his dead Lucy as if she had been a fossil in some sepulchral mine — ' No motion has she now, no force ;. She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.' Indeed where his love verses are most graceful,... | |
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A SLUMBER did my spirit seal ; •^*- I had no human fears : She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones,... 
