 | William Wordsworth - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 56 pages
...remember the waters of eternity — almost like we were children again, laughing and playing on the shore. O 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... | |
 | Alamin M. Mazrui, Alamin Mazrui, Willy Mutunga - Africa - 2004 - 508 pages
...survive in our descendants. The English poet William Wordsworth captured it well when he exclaimed: O Joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That Nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! Let us label this kind of "remembering" the genetic memory in our nature. When politicized this genetic... | |
 | Riccardo Dottori - Logic - 2003 - 452 pages
...overcoming of sadness and the triumph of joy, a reversal of the previous situation of dejection. Oh joy! That in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! (IX, 129-132) The fire, the visionary moment, is indeed "fugitive", but the "shadowy recollections"... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Fiction - 2003 - 356 pages
...lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life! 9 O joy! that in our embers 130 What was so fugitive! The 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 Dell - Health & Fitness - 2005 - 108 pages
...hasten toward the years to come, when his soul shall be nearly covered up with material things? IX O 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... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - Literary Collections - 2005 - 575 pages
...echoing the Intimations Ode. The recovery stanza (his favorite) opens with the same exclamation — O joy! That in our embers Is something that doth live. That Nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! Break not my dream, intrusive tomb! Or teach thou, Spring! The grand recoil Of life resurgent from... | |
 | Geoff Wood - Bible - 2007 - 172 pages
...remembrance of the qualities of childhood something helpful to his sanity as he went on to remark: O joy! that in our embers, Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers .... . . . those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which neither listnessness, nor mad... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life! IX O 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... | |
 | Michael McFee - History - 2006 - 232 pages
...offer a poem and a poet, the most convincing evidence of our genuine love for poetry, is memorization. O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! At first, Steve wanted to get together every other week. Though heartened by his eagerness, I suggested... | |
 | Nancy Bogen - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 426 pages
...earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life! IX O 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... | |
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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... 
