The innocent brightness of a new-born day Is lovely yet; The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly - Page 6edited by - 1838Full view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 384 pages
...relinquished one delight To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lightly...that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other... | |
| Thomas Noon Talfourd - English essays - 1854 - 350 pages
...more habitual away. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I iripp'd lightly as they ; The innocent brightness of a new-born...setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That lunli kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...relinquished one delight To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lightly as they; The innocent brightness of a new-bom Day la lovely yet ; The Clouds that gather round the getting sun Do take a sober colouring... | |
| Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...relinquished one delight To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lightly...that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That, hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Anoilier race hath been, and other... | |
| American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...delight To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the brooks which down their channels fre*, Even more than when I tripped lightly as they , The...that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other... | |
| John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1857 - 502 pages
...by Richard Wilson. Had this artist studied under favourable circumstances, there is evidence of 1 " The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality." his having possessed power enough to produce an original picture ; but, corrupted by study of the Poussins,... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pages
...new-born day Is lovely yet. The clouds that gather round a setting sun Do take a sober colouring from the eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality : Another race hath been, and other palms are won— GO Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joy«, its fears : To... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pages
...new-born day Is lovely yet. The clouds that gather round a setting sun Do take a sober colouring from the eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality : Another race hath been, and other palms arc won — GG Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, its... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 1857 - 334 pages
...STREET. 1857. The right of Translation is reserved. toy, CHAPIL «TMtT, A WOMAN'S STORY. CHAPTER I. " The innocent brightness of a new-born day Is lovely...Another race hath been, and other palms are won." WORDSWOKTH. ALTHOUGH there is nothing to gratify self-love in .the distinction I claim, it is, notwithstanding,... | |
| Julia Addison - 1857 - 684 pages
...XLVIII. HAPPY PROSPECTS. ' Collecting all the heart's sweet ties Into one knot of happiness.' MOOKE. ' The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.' WORDSWORTH. HOWETEB great the charm of travelling in foreign lands, our own country never appears so... | |
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