 | Frederic William Farrar - Philosophers, Ancient - 1877 - 370 pages
...race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white celestial thought ; * * * Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound ; Or had...several sin to every sense ; But felt through all this fleshly dress, Bright shoots of everlastingness." The memory of every student of English poetry will... | |
 | Samuel Osgood - Conduct of life - 1877 - 380 pages
...dwell an hour, And In those weaker glories spy Borne shadows of eternity ; Before I taught my tongtie to wound My conscience with a sinful sound ; Or had...several sin to every sense ; But felt through all this fleshly dross Bright shoots of everlastingness. O how I long to travel back And tread again that ancient... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - American poetry - 1880 - 248 pages
...dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity ; Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had...several sin to every sense, But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness. O how I long to travel back, And tread again that ancient... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 pages
...dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity ; Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense, A sev'ral sin to ev'ry sense, But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 528 pages
...dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity ; Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense, A sev'ral sin to ev'ry sense, But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...dwell an hour, And iu those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity; Before I tanght my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had...several sin to every sense, But felt through all this fleshly dross Bright shoots of everlastingness. Oh, how I long to travel back And tread again that... | |
 | Frederic William Henry Myers - Authors, English - 1881 - 204 pages
...dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity ; Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had...several sin to every sense, But felt through all this fleshly dross Bright shoots of everlastingness. And Wordsworth, whose recollections were exceptionally... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity ; Before I taught my tongue rk'd her course till fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness. Oh how I long to travel back, And tread again that... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...dwell an hoar, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity; Before I taught my tongue ao blindly, Never met — or never parted, Wo had...broken-hearted. Faro thee weel, thou first and fairest ! Fare nil this fleshly dress Bright .shoots of cverlastingness. Oh, how I long to travel back And tread again... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1882 - 632 pages
...dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eteruity ; Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense, A sev'ral sin to ev'ry sense, But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness.... | |
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When on some gilded cloud or flower My gazing soul would dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity; Before I taught my tongue to wound My conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense A several sin to every... 
