This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. A Book of English Sonnets - Page 371906 - 167 pagesFull view - About this book
| Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ; Little we see in nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This sea that...The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for every thing, we are out of tune ; It moves us... | |
| Education - 1856 - 530 pages
...soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ; Little there is in Nature that is ours, We've given our hearts away — a sordid boon ! This sea...winds, that will be howling at all hours, And are upgather'd now, like sleeping flowers ', For this, for ev'rything we're out of tune, It moves us not... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers : Little we see in Nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This sea that...The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for every thing, we are out of tune ; It moves us... | |
| John William Douglas - Beneficial insects - 1856 - 266 pages
...powers : little we see in Nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid hoon ! The sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 pages
...soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers : Little we see in Nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This Sea that...The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers ; * The rapturousness of Spring was perhaps never more nobly... | |
| English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ; Little we see in Nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This Sea, that...Winds, that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for every thing, we are out of tune ; 295 It moves... | |
| Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...materialism and infidelity of a Christian age as more uncongenial than the fond aspirations even of Paganism. This sea, that bares her bosom to the moon, — The...winds, that will be howling at all hours. And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, — • For this, for everything, we are out of tune ; It moves... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gather'd now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for every thing, we are out of tune ; It moves us not. Great God ! I'd rather be 544 WORDSWORTH. [VICTOBIA, A pagan suckled in a ereed outworn ; So might... | |
| Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...Little we see in Nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! The sea that bears her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for every thing, we are out of tune ; It moves us... | |
| WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers : Little we see in Nature that is ours ; Wo have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This sea that...The winds that will be howling at all hours And are up-gather'd now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us... | |
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