 | Charles Lanman - History - 1848 - 231 pages
...earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as fate, and deep almost as life." " O joy, that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive." " To me the meanest flower that blooms, can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." Strange... | |
 | Charles Lanman - Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) - 1848 - 322 pages
...earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as fate, and deep almost as life." " O joy, that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive." " To me, the meanest flower that blows, can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." Strange,... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1848 - 176 pages
...such a piece of inspired philosophy — we do not believe exists elsewhere in human language: — " O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was fugitive! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions : not indeed For that... | |
 | Sir James Stephen, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - English essays - 1848 - 172 pages
...such a piece of inspired philosophy — we do not believe exists elsewhere in human language: — " О joy '. that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was fugitive! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions : not indeed For that... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 619 pages
...earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! О joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live,...thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest ; Delight and liberty, the simple... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 546 pages
...of common day-" And page 352 to 354 of the same ode. " О joy that in our embers Ie something th&t doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! The thought of our past years in roe dnth hrsjaj Perpetual benedictions : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be bles*— Delight... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 552 pages
...earthly freight And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! 0 joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is... | |
 | 1850
...proceeds to point it out. Awaking from his revcry, he exclaims — *' Oh joy 1 that in onr ember« Is something that doth live — That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive !" But why this exclamation, if the remembrance of the past only imbitters the present I But it is... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 377 pages
...blessedness at strife ? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight, O joy! that in our embers, 4 Is something that doth live : That nature yet remembers...thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that, which is most worthy to be blest, Delight and liberty, the simple... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 727 pages
...9. O joy ! that in our embers ^ .; 1 Is something that doth live, , That nature yet remembers I y T What was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth bre Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest Delight and liberty,... | |
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Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise... 
