CONVALESCENCE. SEE the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again. The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To... Popular poems, selected by E. Parker - Seite 225von Elizabeth Parker (editor.) - 1841Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Flora (goddess.) - 1835 - 314 Seiten
...flow, No yesterday, nor morrow, know; 'Tis man alone that joy descries, With forward and reverted eyes. See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed...air, the skies, To him are opening paradise. GRAY. APRIL. Now infant April joins the Spring, And views the wat'ry sky ; As youngling linnet triet its... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1835 - 1006 Seiten
...bringing strikingly and vividly before us the commonest and most familiar feelings of our nature: s' See the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed...repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again; Mi The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air,... | |
| John Pierpont - 1835 - 496 Seiten
...his earliest and most precious years, is thus introduced at last to a new heaven and a new earth : " The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...that swells the gale The common sun, the air, the skiss, To him are opening Paradise." The effects of foreign travel have heen often remarked, not only... | |
| James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - 1838 - 370 Seiten
...moment to both principles—fear and hope. " The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note which swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." Now, CJniversalism dispenses wholly with the motive of fear as regards the future world. Therefore,... | |
| 1836 - 558 Seiten
...blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life. See the wretch, that long has to»t On the thorny bed of Pain, At length repair his vigour...the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him arc opening Paradise." Our author's reputation, as a poet, was so high, that, on the death of Colley... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1836 - 434 Seiten
...blended form with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life. See the wretch that long has toss'd, On the thorny bed of pain ; At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again. The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To... | |
| Author of Old maids - 1836 - 210 Seiten
...her, little less affected than his sister. AND PATRICIANS. 145 CHAPTER XXV. " The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To hirn—are opening Paradise." Gray. Anne's simple and affecting narrative was soon told, and it called... | |
| Plebeians - 1836 - 858 Seiten
...whilst Sir John hung over her, little less affected than hie sister. ' CHAPTER V. " The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him—are opening Paradise." Gray. ANNE'S simple and affecting narrative change of circumstances was... | |
| 1832 - 440 Seiten
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| Charles Edward Herbert Orpen - 1836 - 688 Seiten
...an interest beyond their own. The plough, the loom, the flocks and herds to him have a new value ; ' The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise.' The endearments of kindred and friendship have almost the charms of novelty to him, and what was little... | |
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