 But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in...  Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School - Page 320by Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 430 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1842 - 412 pages
...truths that wake, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad...destroy ! Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither. Can in a moment... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlcssness, nor mad endeavour, Nor man, nor hoy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish...destroy ! Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither ; Can in a moment... | |
 | George Moody - Education - 1843 - 444 pages
...it, which the world cannot give or take away, will arouse it to the consciousness of— " Thoughts that wake To perish never. Which neither listlessness...enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy." I am following your example, in quoting from a poet who, I think with you, has yet to be understood... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised ! VOL. VI. H But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections,...destroy ! Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did...destroy ! Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls liave sight of tliat immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...like a guilty Thing surprised : But for those first affeetions, Those shadowy recolleetions, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of...utterly abolish or destroy ! Hence in a season of cahu weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...the being Of the eternal silence : truths that wake, To perish never ; Which neither liiitlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor man nor boy. Nor all that is...destroy ! Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...that doth live, — That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive ! 74 INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY. The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual...destroy ! Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea, Which brought us hither, Can in a moment... | |
 | George Moore - Mind and body - 1846 - 452 pages
...thought of which " breeds perpetual benedictions," and faith is nourished with angel's food : "The truths that wake To perish never ; Which neither listlessness,...at enmity with joy Can utterly abolish or destroy." This kind of poetry is better than logic ; it is intuitive truth, and therefore essentially related... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1846 - 350 pages
...the being Of the eternal Silence : trutl» that wake. To perish never; Which neither listlessnese, nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is...destroy ! Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though Inland far we be, Our Souls have sight ofthat immortal sea Which brought us hither, Cm in a moment... | |
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