My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. " Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. National Review - Seite 91857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 322 Seiten
...delightful day, I cannot chuse but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink. My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly...takes away Than what it leaves behind. The blackbird in the summer trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when... | |
| 1849 - 778 Seiten
...self-denying one who, in the midst of his own darkness, had made the path of others bright. CHAPTEB X. The wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. My days, my friend, are almost gone ; My life has been approved, And many love me : but by none Am... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 Seiten
...delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside the fountain's brink. My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly...takes away, Than what it leaves behind. The Blackbird in the summer trees, The Lark upon the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when... | |
| 1892 - 688 Seiten
...of Jonathan Oldbnck of Monkbarns, when speaking to his young friend Lovel in the haunted room : — My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly...still in our decay ; And yet the wiser mind Mourns lets for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. JOHN PlCKFORD, MA Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 Seiten
...delightful day, I cannot choose but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this Fountain's brink. " My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly...sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. "Thus faros it still in our decay: And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it... | |
| 1851 - 854 Seiten
...in his own simple way, has many a time moistened every eye in a previously merry circle — ' Mine eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly...sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.' As many of our English readers may not have seen this popular song, we quote it in full. It was the... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1852 - 314 Seiten
...thread of youthful visions till I can almost think I am weaving them again — " My eyes are filled with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears As in those days I heard." This spell of local association has always been strong upon me. As I pass... | |
| Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1852 - 1284 Seiten
...thread of youthful visions till I can almost think I am weaving them again — " My eyes are filled with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears As in those days I heard." This spell of local association has always been strong upon me. As I pass... | |
| George William Curtis - 1852 - 216 Seiten
...talked of Italy. They were pleasant days, he said, which shall return no more. " My eyes are full of childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears, That in those days I heard. " Thus fares it still in our decay, CATSKILL FALLS HI. JULY. DID not see... | |
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