 | 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... | |
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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... 
