 How often sit I, poring o'er My strange distorted youth, Seeking in vain, in all my store, One feeling based on truth; Amid the maze of petty life A clue whereby to move, A spot whereon in toil and strife To dare to rest and love. So constant as my heart...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5761862Full view - About this book
 | Arthur Hugh Clough, Thomas Burbidge - English poetry - 1849 - 170 pages
...Flows wafting-in friendships and better,—I Unseeing, listless, pace along the shore. How often sit I, poring o'er My strange distorted youth, Seeking...would be, So fickle as it must, 'Twere well for others as for me 'Twere dry as summer dust. Excitements come, and act and speech Flow freely forth ;—but... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough, Thomas Burbidge - English poetry - 1849 - 178 pages
...Flows wafting-in friendships and bettor,— I Unseeing, listless, pace along the shore. How often sit I, poring o'er My strange distorted youth. Seeking...whereon in toil and strife To dare to rest and love. IT. So constant as my heart would be, So fickle as it must, 'Twero well for others as for mo 'Twero... | |
 | Scotland - 1862 - 1008 pages
...feeling hastd on truth ; Amid the maze of petty life A clue wherehy to move, A spot whereon in toll will strife To dare to rest and love. So constant as my heart would he. So fickle as It must, TWITS well for others and for me Twere dry as summer dust. Excitements come... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1864 - 350 pages
...speculative cast can scarcely escape this habit of mind. Their own experience is much like Mr Clough's :— " How often sat I poring o'er My strange distorted youth....in vain in all my store One feeling based on truth ; " for a certain intellectual activity prompts to a perpetual review and suspicion of the past. Authors,... | |
 | Anne Mozley - Conduct of life - 1865 - 364 pages
...cast can scarcely escape this habit of mind. Their own experience is much like Mr. Clough's : — " How often sat I poring o'er My strange distorted youth,...in vain in all my store One feeling based on truth " ; for a certain intellectual activity prompts to a perpetual review and suspicion of the past. Authors,... | |
 | Anne Mozley - Conduct of life - 1865 - 374 pages
...cast can scarcely escape this habit of mind. Their own experience is much like Mr. Clough's : — " How often sat I poring o'er My strange distorted youth,...in vain in all my store One feeling based on truth " ; for a certain intellectual activity prompts tb a perpetual review and suspicion of the past. Authors,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1866 - 860 pages
...enjoyed. How often sit I, poring o'er JIv strange distorted youth, Seeking in vain, in all my store, Onr feeling based on truth ; Amid the maze of petty life...whereon in toil and strife To dare to rest and love. Professor Shairp's notes refer to this period : As a freshman I looked with respect approaching to... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 518 pages
...wafting-in friendships and better, — I Unseeing, listless, pace along the shore. v How often sit I, poring o'er My strange distorted youth, Seeking...would be, So fickle as it must, 'Twere well for others as for me 'Twere dry as summer dust. Excitements come, and act and speech Flow freely forth ; — but... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 542 pages
...wafting-in friendships and better, — I Unseeing, listless, pace along the shore. v How often sit I, poring o'er My strange distorted youth, Seeking in vain, in all my store, One feelins; based on truth ; Amid the maze of petty life A clue whereby to move, A spot whereon in toil... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - English poetry - 1874 - 416 pages
...wafting-in friendships and better, — I Unseeing, listless, pace along the shore. v How often sit I, poring o'er My strange distorted youth, Seeking...would be, So fickle as it must, 'Twere well for others as for me 'Twere dry as summer dust. Excitements come, and act and speech Flow freely forth ; — but... | |
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