The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest, Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast:... English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) - Page 393by John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 792 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...so fugitue! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions : not indeed 352 For that which is most worthy to be blest ; Delight...Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ;... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 316 pages
...was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions : not in deed For that which is most worthy to be blest Delight...Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 pages
...was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Peqietual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest ; Delight...Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ;... | |
| Childhood - 1841 - 384 pages
...was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest,— Delight...Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ;... | |
| American poetry - 1862 - 512 pages
...was so fugitive! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest ; Delight...Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ;... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest ; Delight...Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise 5 But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ;... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedietion : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest ; Delight...Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ;... | |
| William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest ; Delight...Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ;... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest ; Delight...Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise, But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank... | |
| 1846 - 436 pages
...INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY. The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest ; Delight...Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ;... | |
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