 Oh could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness to die! Methinks their very names shine still and bright ; Apart — like glow-worms on a summer night; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray; or seen — like...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 256edited by - 1840Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth, Henry Norman Hudson - 1889 - 251 pages
...read of faith and purest charity In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen: 0, could we copy tlicir mild virtues, then What joy to live, what blessedness...Methinks their very names shine still and bright; .Apart—like glow-worms on a summer night; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray;... | |
 | William Wordsworth, John Morley (viscount) - English poetry - 1890 - 1012 pages
...his soul — "that he may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight " WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES >l n ڹ 1 Methinks their very names shine still and bright ; Apart — like glow-worms on a summer night ;... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1892 - 524 pages
...may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." V. WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. THERE are no colors in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather,...shine still and bright ; Apart — like glow-worms on a summer night; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray; or seen — like stars... | |
 | John Jeremiah Daniell - Poets, English - 1893 - 348 pages
...With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. O could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what happiness to die ! Methinks their very names shine still and bright Apart — like glow-worms on a... | |
 | 1893 - 352 pages
...With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity In statesman, priest, and humble citizen. O could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to live, what happiness to die ! Methinks their very names shine still and bright Apart — like glow-worms on a... | |
 | Richard Acland Armstrong - Unitarian churches - 1895 - 494 pages
...Herbert, and Sanderson,' and we shall learn how beautiful has been the fair blossom of English piety. " There are no colours in the fairest sky so fair as...virtues, then, what joy to live, what blessedness to die ! " Why then did he and others find themselves compelled to stand aloof ? " Why should we not be content... | |
 | John Buchan - English poetry - 1896 - 170 pages
...hears it said that Wordsworth disliked angling. He has another admirable sonnet on Waltotfs Lives. " There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...virtues, then What joy to live ; what blessedness to die l Methinks their very names shine still and bright, Apart — like glow-worms in the woods of spring,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1896 - 448 pages
...With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity 5 In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen : O could we copy their mild virtues, then What joy to...shine still and bright ; Apart — like glow-worms on a summer night ; 10 Or lonely tapers when from far they fling * Compare Paradise Lost, book iii.... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Sonnets, English - 1897 - 258 pages
...faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know. wise, WALTON'S BOOK OF LIYES THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as...names shine still and bright ; Apart, like glow-worms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen, like stars on... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Andrew Lang - English literature - 1897 - 342 pages
...mother's love with maiden purity, Of high with low, celestial with terrene ! WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES HERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these....names shine still and bright ; Apart, like glow-worms on a summer night ; Or lonely tapers when from far they fling A guiding ray ; or seen, like stars on... | |
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