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" The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath... "
The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery - Page 50
by Laura Quinney - 1999
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The Rod and the Gun: Being Two Treatises on Angling and Shooting

James Wilson - Fishes - 1840 - 500 pages
...golden light, we hope not to offend. Indeed, we never heard of the God of Day complaining that — " The moon doth with delight, Look round her when the heavens are bare." And yet, who doubts that she, in common with ourselves, must ever shine only by borrowed lustre? We...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 48

England - 1840 - 880 pages
...rejoice when the blue concave is all her own, and not a cloud remains to checker its purity 1 — •• The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare." But now again does it not seem as if she were all uncertain in the path she was pursuing, and in need...
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Childhood, a selection from the poets, by H.M.R.

Childhood - 1841 - 384 pages
...yore; Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more. II. The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose, The moon doth with defigbt Look round her when the heavens are bare ; Waters on a starry ni^ht Are beautiful and fair;...
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Book of the Poets: The Modern Poets of the Nineteenth Century

American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can sec no more. The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose,...birth ; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath pass'd away a glory from the earth. To me alone there came a thought of grief : A timely utterance...
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Book of the Poets: The Modern Poets of the Nineteenth Century

American poetry - 1862 - 512 pages
...; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more. The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose,...doth with delight Look round her when the heavens arc bare ; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair ; The sunshine is a glorious birth ; But...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...neophytes shook their heads in deep conviction. The reciter's voice deepened in unction as he repeated, " The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare," and, unheeding the aside remark of the calmer sceptic that the last was rather a bare line, he proceeded...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...neophytes shook their heads in deep conviction. The reciter's voice deepened in unction as he repeated, " The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare," and, unheeding the aside remark of the calmer sceptic that the last was rather a bare line, he proceeded...
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Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be ..., Volume 2, Issue 72

Sharon Turner - Creation - 1844 - 452 pages
...yore. Turn wheresoever I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen, I now can see no more The rainbow comes and goes ; And lovely is the rose ; The moon doth, with delight, look round when the heavens are barn Waters on a Marry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 121

American periodicals - 1874 - 990 pages
...no longer young, which says to us, — The things which I have seen I now can see no more, and,—' I know, where'er I go, That there hath past away a glory from the earth.* But what is flat and stale to us was intensely poetical to the youth of our world. The cup which we...
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The Poems of William Wordsworth ...

William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...— Turn whereso'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more. п. The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose,...That there hath past away a glory from the earth. in. Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song, And while the young lambs bound As to the tabor's...
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