SMALL service is true service while it lasts : Of humblest Friends, bright Creature ! scorn not one : The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun. Bentley's Miscellany - Page 559edited by - 1854Full view - About this book
| Home life - 1848 - 186 pages
...inseparably associated. Nor imagine that you are too lowly and insignificant to influence others : "The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun." If you can only wipe away a child's tears, and recall the bright smile to its dimpled features, you... | |
| Spring flowers, S. P. - 1849 - 178 pages
...Coleridge. TO A CHILD. Small service is true service while it lasts ; Of humblest friends, bright creature, scorn not one : The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. Wordsworth. THE YOUTHFUL KING. Suggested by a Portrait of Edward VI. in hit State robe*. Than the grandeur... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...ПЕВ ALBUM. SMALL service is true service while it last«: Of humUu.st Friends, bright Creature ! scorn not one: The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the Hireling dew-drop from the Sun. XV. LINES WHITTES ИГ TB1 AJ.BCK ОГ THS COUMT1M Oí LO*TJ »от.... | |
| Edward N. Marks - 1852 - 78 pages
...antidote to ennui, but they were written at the request of private, and ofttimes humble, friends; for " Small service is true service while it lasts, Of friends,...The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the ling'ring dew-drop from the sun." Designed solely for those of my own immediate circle of acquaintance,... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...to so much sweetness, However dangerous, in your favour finds A wished and glorious end. Massinger. Small service is true service while it lasts, Of friends...casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. Wordsworth. SERVILE. YET as winds sing through a hollow tree, And, (since it lets them pass through,)... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...But wins the heart, and wakes the social sigh, With every claim of close affinity. ROGERS. SERVICES. Small service is true service while it lasts ; Of...casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. WORDSWOBTH. POWER OP MIND. It wants but effort of the active mind To people Earth and Heaven with ministering... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 384 pages
...IN HER ALBUM. SMALL service is true service while it lasts : Of humblest Friends, bright Creature ! scorn not one : The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun. 1834. XVIII. LINES WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF THE COUNTESS OF LONSDALE. NOV. 6, 1834. LADY ! a Pen (perhaps... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1897 - 346 pages
...album : — Small service is true service while it lasts ; Of humblest friends, bright creature, acorn not one ! The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. Now Tennyson's poem " The Daisy " is merely an interesting description in verse of his honeymoon journey... | |
| 1855 - 1226 pages
...forgotten a humble, and indeed nameless, actor in one of the preceding scenes, -who rendered good iii in the hour of need at the toll-bar between Aspen...casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun." NOT the big man, who, on hearing little Amy mention the name of their common friend, Bernard Carlyon,... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pages
...sweetness, might form a not inappropriate introduction to the study of all his human characters. " Small service is true service while it lasts, Of friends,...daisy — by the shadow that it casts — Protects a lingering dew-drop from the sun." * • The remarks of Mr. Buskin may not be inappropriately quoted,... | |
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