 | Boys - Boys - 1880 - 362 pages
...And in my heart the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men : The fields to all...cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain." Cowper's special friend at school was one William Russell, and the two snared together their studies... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 506 pages
...And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men ; The fields to all...cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain. A CLVII ANNIVERSARY. FEB. 3}, 1795. PLAINTIVE sonnet flowed from Milton's pen WILLIAM MASON When Time... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pages
...And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men ; The fields to all...cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain. CLVII ANNIVEESAEY. FEE. 23, 1795. /-\ r MASON A PLAINTIVE sonnet flowed from Milton's pen WILLIAM When... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 626 pages
...4And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men : The fields to all...hear, And weep the more, because I weep in. vain. SKETCH OF HIS OWN CHARACTER. Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune ; « He had not the method... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1881 - 826 pages
...imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to hapoier men: The fields to all their wonted tribute bear ;...hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain." and adds the following remark : — " It will easily be perceived, that the only part of this Sonnet... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1881 - 112 pages
...pathos of this stanza has made it known to many who are ignorant of the poem as a whole. 30 Idly. " I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear. And weep the more because I weep in vain." — GRAY. 35 Explain what is meant by this and the following line by instancing the particular case... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...Milton. w The succession of poets after Milton's time. From A SONNET. On the Death of Mr. Kichard West. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain. [Solon, when he wept his son's death, and one said to him, "Weeping will not help," he answered, "I... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...And in my breast the imperfect joys expire. Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all...cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain. The treatment of grief is highly conventional (nature is beautiful, but it is no longer beautiful to... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 pages
...men: The fields to all their wonted tributes bear, To warm their little loves the birds complain. / fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain;) and adds the following remark: — "It will easily be perceived, that the only part of this Sonnet... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - English poetry - 1990 - 338 pages
...men: The fields to all their wonted tribute bear: To warm their little loves the birds complain: / fruitless mourn to him, that cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain? The five lines he has italicized, Wordsworth asserts, "will easily be perceived [to be] the only part... | |
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A different object do these eyes require; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all their wonted tribute... 
