 | 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... | |
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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... 
