 | 1903 - 606 pagina’s
...note of actuality ; he had ' come forth into the light of things. ' The temper of the poet was his : ' The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me —...her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.' No man ever had a keener Nature-sense ; no teaching was ever so spontaneous, so instinctive, so full... | |
 | 1845 - 786 pagina’s
...discords to which they were wilfully surrendered, insensible to his music, such notes as these : — ' Long have I loved what I behold, The night that calms,...her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears ;' and since he denounced the mere man of the world, represented under the guise of Peter Bell, as... | |
 | 1829 - 1008 pagina’s
...bowers, and ladies fair, The shades of palaces and kings!" And the poet replies to these seductions, " Long have I loved what I behold, The night that calms,...day that cheers ; The common growth of mother earth Sufficea me — her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. " The dragon's wing, the mystic... | |
 | 1819 - 792 pagina’s
...earth, the following verses are introduced, in reference to the subject of the poem : Long have I lov'd what I behold, The night that calms, the day that...The dragon's wing, the magic ring, I shall not covet for my dower, If I along that lowly way With sympathetic heart may stray And with a soul of power.... | |
 | 664 pagina’s
...poem which Aristarchus would persuade us is a tissue of " daudling impotent drivel." Long have I lov'd what I behold, The night that calms, the day that...humblest mirth and tears. The dragon's wing, the magic wing, I shall not covet for my dower, If I along that lowlv way With sympathetic heart may stray, And... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pagina’s
...poem which Aristarchns would persuade us is a tissue of " dandling impotent drivel." Long have I lov'd what I behold, The night that calms, the day that...humblest mirth and tears. The dragon's wing, the magic wing, I shall not covet for my dower, Jf I along that lowlv way With sympathetic neart may stray, And... | |
 | 1819 - 792 pagina’s
...introduced, in reference u> the subject of the poem : Long have I lov'd what I behold. The night that cairns, the day that cheers : The common growth of mother...The dragon's wing, the magic ring, I shall not covet for my dower, If I along that lowly way With sympathetic heart may stray And with a soul of power.... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1819 - 636 pagina’s
...ambitious Youth, For I myself, in very truth, Am all unfit to be your mate. . > • Long have I lov'd what I behold, The night that calms, the day that...mother earth Suffices me — her tears, her mirth, |l Her humblest mirth and tears. « The dragon's wing, the magic ring, I shall not covet for my dower,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 372 pagina’s
...with you some ambitious Youth, For I myself, in very truth, Am all unfit to be your mate. VOL. II. O Long have I loved what I behold, The night that calms,...The dragon's wing, the magic ring, I shall not covet for my dower, If I along that lowly way With sympathetic heart may stray And with a soul of power.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 478 pagina’s
...expressed in many parts of his poems, as for instance in the three following verses from Peter Bell. Long have I loved what I behold, The night that calms,...The dragon's wing, the magic ring, I shall not covet for my dower, If I along that lowly way With sympathetic heart may stray, And with a soul of power.... | |
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Long have I loved what I behold, The night that calms, the day that cheers : The common growth of mother earth Suffices me — her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. The dragon's wing, the magic ring, I shall not covet for my dower, If I... 
