 The world is too much with us : late and 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 bares her bosom to the moon ; The winds that will be howling...  Poetry of the Age of Fable - Page vi1863 - 251 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 pages
...rapturousness of Spring was perhaps never more nobly expressed than in the last two lines of this sonnet. For this, for every thing, we are out of tune ; It...moves us not. — Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - Education - 1858 - 560 pages
...we sec in nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This sea, that bears, her bosom to the moon ; The winds, that will be howling...thing, we are out of tune ; It moves us not. Great God ! I 'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 pages
...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. — Great God...sight of Proteus coming from the sea, "* Or hear old Tri':on blow his wreathed horn " 134 THE INDICATOR. [CHAP. xxiv. CHAPTER XXIV. Getting up on Cold Mornings.... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 336 pages
...powers : Little we see in nature that is ours ; "We have given our hearts away, — a eordid hoon ! This sea, that bares her bosom to the moon, — The...It moves us not. Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...will be howling at all hours And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, tor everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. Great God ! I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might 1, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | Education - 1864 - 378 pages
...that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This Sea that bears her bosom to the7 moon ; The winds that will be howling at all hours,...moves us not. — Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1865 - 316 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...moves us not. — Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 318 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...moves us not. — Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1866 - 508 pages
...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. — Great God ! I'd rather ba A pagan suckled in a creed outworn; • So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses... | |
 | Hiram Corson - Elocution - 1867 - 54 pages
...and 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...thing, we are out of tune; It moves us not. Great God I Fd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have... | |
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