 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1842 - 578 pages
...we see in Nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This Sea that hares her bosom to the moon ; The winds that will be howling...at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.—Great God! I'd rather be... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 360 pages
...soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that...at all hours And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for every thing, we are out of tune; It moves us not. — Great God! I'd rather... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pages
...is ours : This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! ; The Winds that will be howling at all hours, And are upgathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for every thing, we are out of tune; It moves us not.—Great God! I'd rather be... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1064 pages
...waste our powers : Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon 1 above thy sphere; Till pride and worse ambition threw...Heav'n against Heav'n's matchless King Ah wherefore flowers; For this, for every thing, we are out of tune; It moves us not.—Great God ! I'd rather be... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...soon, Setting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; iVe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This Sea that...moon ; The Winds that will be howling at all hours, &.nd are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for every thing, we are out of tune ; It... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers : Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This Sea that...at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for every thing, we are out of tune; It moves us not.—Great God! I'd rather be... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...willing to he reconciled: О gentle Creature! do not nee me 10, But once and deeply let me be beguiled. The Winds that will be howling at all hours And are up-gathered now like sleeping III. A FLOCK of sheep that leisurely рам by, Une after one ; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring;... | |
 | English poetry - 1833 - 246 pages
...we see in Nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid hoon ! This Sea that hares her bosom to the moon ; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gather'd now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for every thing, we are out of tune ; It moves us... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - German drama - 1835 - 556 pages
...Goethe. Schiller's lines are little more than an amplification of Wordsworth's noble sonnet: — We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that...at all hours, And are upgathered now like sleeping flowers; — For this, for every thing, we are out of tune : It moves us not. — Great God! I'd rather... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1835 - 352 pages
...soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours : We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that...at all hours, And are upgathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for every thing, we are out of tune; It moves us not.—Great God ! I'd rather be... | |
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