 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
 | Henry Austin Dobson - 1880 - 348 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,...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... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Conduct of life - 1880 - 502 pages
...he howling at all hours, And are regathered now, like sleeping flowers ; For this, for 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 I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - Literature - 1880 - 772 pages
...howling at all hours And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers ; l'"or this, for everything, we arc 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... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pages
...WOEDSWOETH 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...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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers ; For this, lor every thing, we are out of tune ; It moves us not. — Great God ! I'd rather be cA Pagan suckled in a creed outworn : So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that... | |
 | Samuel Waddington - 1881 - 242 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 ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | John Barnard - Literary Collections - 1987 - 192 pages
...mythology. 'The world is too much with us', first published in 1807, ends: For this, for 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 I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - History - 1988 - 264 pages
...We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon I This sea, that bares her bosom to the moon ; 'Vli.- winds, that -will be howling at all hours, And are...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... | |
 | Charles Wegener - Philosophy - 1992 - 244 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 be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn. . . . Those who rather enjoy being cosmically distressed by telling "sad... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 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 be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make... | |
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