 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...bed without the sense or sight Of day or the warm light, A place of thought where we in waiting lie ; Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born...Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upop thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - American literature - 1828 - 298 pages
...who ia our home." ' How much more sublime than ever, if this is true, is his address to a child : " Thou whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's...thy soul shall have her earthly freight And custom He upon thee with a weight ,' Heavy as frost and deep almost as life !" ^ ' Dear Tom, I have bored... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...in waiting lie ; Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom, on thy Being'* nd-hills. The Shepherd, at such warning, of his flock...a shelter — summoned him Up to the mountains: he almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1832 - 378 pages
...heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet! Seer blest!...yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Pull soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...heritage, thou eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind ; — Mighty prophet ! Seer blest...shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy us frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...heritage, thou eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet ! Seer blest...shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! VIII. O joy ! that in our embers Is something... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 412 pages
...grave ; Thou, over whom thy immortality Broods like the day, — a master o'er a slave, — A presenee which is not to be put by ; Thou little child, yet...shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something... | |
 | 1839 - 446 pages
...That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — flighty Prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths do rest,...shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something... | |
 | Childhood - 1841 - 384 pages
...heritage, thou eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind,— Mighty prophet! seer blest!...shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost and deep almost as life. IX. O joy ! that in our embers Is something... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1842 - 440 pages
...blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal m•nd; — Mighty prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths...shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! Ojoy! that in our embers Is something... | |
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Haunted forever by the eternal mind! — Mighty prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest Which we are toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave; Thou over whom thy immortality Broods like the day, a master o'er... 
