 | John Timbs - 1860 - 454 Seiten
...short a date. But it is better to take refuge in the home philosophy of our great metaphysical poet : Thus fares it still in our decay ; And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what Time takes away Than what he leaves behind. PORTRAIT OF THE HON. MRS. HOPE. This truly splendid portrait... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 838 Seiten
...with Wordsworth, as in the exquisite lines — My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is icily stirred ; For the same sound is in my ears, Which in those days I heard. And so, in the companion poem, old Matthew is moved by the recollection of his lost child by the sight... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1920 - 388 Seiten
...men Has oftener left me mourning. or in a still higher strain the six beautiful quatrains, page 134. Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser...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... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1903 - 248 Seiten
...thus, in the poem called the Fountain, on the life of man : — My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in...for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. These are the reflections of one who has studied the mind of man as reverently and patiently as the... | |
 | Geoffrey Durrant - 1969 - 184 Seiten
...long resisted — that every life is at last defeated by time. '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.' The whole of this stanza suggests the unchanging reality against which man measures his own change... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1876 - 840 Seiten
...which, however familiar, can never be read without emotion — My eyes are dim with childish tears, Jly heart is idly stirred ; For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I hoard. And the strangely beautiful address to the Cuckoo might be made into a text for a prolonged... | |
 | Heather Glen - 1983 - 420 Seiten
...I lay Beside this Fountain's brink. My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd. For the same sound is in my ears, Which in those days I heard. The concern is far from simply with lost youth. For the gnomically enigmatic stanzas which follow are... | |
 | Frederic Stewart Colwell - 1989 - 246 Seiten
...the fountain creature of "The Two April Mornings," the figure of the lost Emma, and his own youth: "for the same sound is in my ears / Which in those days I heard." The fountain knows no rest, and with its welling energy and its affirmation of life coming to be, of... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...London with its own black wreath, (1. 29-30) EBEV; FaBoRV; FiP; NOBE; NoP; OAEL-2; SCV The Fountain 19 ly pipers; And, whether they pipe us free, from rats or from mice, If we've pro (1. 34-36) 20 We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore. (1. 47^8) EnRP; GTBS; GTBS-P;... | |
 | Ross Greig Woodman - 1992 - 200 Seiten
...to remember images from the past. Senile forgetfulness is preferable. "The wiser mind," he tells us, "Mourns less for what age takes away / Than what it leaves behind." He then paints a grim picture of people, "glad no more," who "wear a face of joy, because / [they]... | |
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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. 
