 Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest,...  An Excursion Among the Poets - Page 79edited by - 1853 - 360 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy, But He beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy ; The Youth, who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy, But He beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy ; The Youth, who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy, But He beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy ; The Youth, who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy, But He beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy ; The Youth, who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length... | |
 | England - 1831 - 1044 pages
...of the prison-house begin to close Before the growing boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows — He sees it in his joy ; The youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is nature's priest, And by the vision splendid I» on his way attended ; At... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy, But He beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy ; The Youth, who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...palsied Age, That Life brings with her in her Equipage ; AH if his whole vocation Were endless imitation. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's...heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, rendst the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternnt mind, — Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy, But lie beholds the light, and whence it flows, lie sees it in his joy; The Youth, who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length... | |
 | Scotland - 1831 - 1070 pages
...of the prison-house begin to close Before the growing boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows — He sees it in his joy ; The youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At... | |
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