 Thou little child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Full soon thy soul shall have...  Little Classics - Page 61edited by - 1875Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Simpson Patterson - 1862 - 236 pages
...entitled "Intimations of Immortality/' and grounded on a well-known theory of Plato: — " O joy I that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive I The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which... | |
 | Half hours - 1863 - 408 pages
...height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, — Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Full soon...upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! . Oh joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That Nature yet remembers... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon...lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That Nature yet remembers... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...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 that doth...That Nature yet remembers What was so fugitive ! The th&ught of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Fairy tales - 1864 - 322 pages
...height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The Years to bring the inevitable yoke ' — Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Full soon...lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life." WORDSWORTH. fERE I come to the very saddest part of all my story. I know some people... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 772 pages
...die away, And fade into the light of common day." And pages 352 to 354 of the same ode.* " 0 joy 1 that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers IAVhat was so fugitive '. The thought of oar past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions : not... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1865 - 316 pages
...height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Full soon...upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers... | |
 | David Gervais - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 304 pages
...nine of the ' Immortality Ode', a change he too regards as one of the great moments of modern poetry: Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight,...That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! The cumulative impact of Wordsworth's change of key is lost in so short an extract but the scope of the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon...upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life! DC 130 O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...height. Why with such eamest pains dost tliou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke. Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon...upon thee with a weight. Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life! Oh joy! that in our embers 130 Is something that doth live. That nature yet remembers... | |
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