 Shalt show us how divine a thing A Woman may be made. Thy thoughts and feelings shall not die, Nor leave thee, when grey hairs are nigh A melancholy slave; But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave.  Dorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister's Love - Page 58by Edmund Lee - 1886 - 214 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) - 1921 - 370 pages
...me close in the words of that 94 great poet whom you have taught us "how to know," wishing you . . . An old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night. 95 RESPONSE PROFESSOR WINCHESTER, '69 I CONFESS that since I learned two or three weeks ago of the... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1922 - 488 pages
...attires, And May her crown of roses, f Thy thoughts and feelings shall not die, Nor leave thee, when gray hairs are nigh, A melancholy slave ; But an old age...as a Lapland night. Shall lead thee to thy grave. \ Go happy maid, increase the store Of graces born with you, and more Add to their number still ; So... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. WORDSWORTH- — The Fountain. St. 9. 24 a sea-change WORDSWORTH — To a Young Lady. 25 The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly Personage; A stature... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - Children in literature - 1922 - 426 pages
...of the reference and emotionally fuses it with his promises for the old age of a mother of children: an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. Although the poem Pre-Existence (A Poem in Imitation of Milton) does not touch upon childhood, it is... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - Children in literature - 1922 - 424 pages
...the reference and emotionally fuses it with his promises for the old age of a mother of children : an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night. Shall lead tbee to thy grave. Although the poem Pre-Existence (A Poem in Imitation of Milton) does not touch upon... | |
 | william worsworth - 1923 - 498 pages
...treading among flowers of joy Which at no season fade, Thou, while thy babes around thee cling, Shalt show us how divine a thing A Woman may be made. Thy thoughts...as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. THE SAILOR'S MOTHER [Composed March 11, 12, 1802.— Published 1807.] One morning (raw it was and wet... | |
 | Fullerton Leonard Waldo - Mackenzie River (N.W.T.) - 1923 - 316 pages
...more than thirtyfive years of service with the Hudson's Bay Company, and has put by a competency for an old age "serene and bright and lovely as a Lapland night." He married a half-breed wife who has been fond and faithful; his quiver is full of children, and grandchildren... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 408 pages
...T. TlCKELL. Thank God for Death ! bright thing with dreary name. Benedicam Domino* SUSAN CooLIDCE. But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. To a Younf I.ady. WORDSWORTH. AFTER DEATH. The wisest men are glad to die ; no few Of death can touch... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1927 - 734 pages
...shall hot die; Nor leave thee, when grey hairs are nigh A melancholy slave ; But an old age serepe and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lea,d thee to thy gTW>(1805) CHARACTER OP THE HAPPY WARRIOR1 WHO is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every man in arms... | |
 | Heathcote William Garrod - Poets, English - 1927 - 242 pages
...vigorous and vivid youth her brother had prophesied, in one of the most beautiful of his shorter poems, an old age serene and bright And lovely as a Lapland night, was destined to live the last five-and-twenty years of her life with reason clouded irrecoverably and... | |
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