 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 648 pages
...thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced ; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee : A poet could not but be gay, '5 In such a jocund company : I gazed — and gazed — but little thought What wealth the show to... | |
 | Arbor Day - 1898 - 68 pages
...thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee ; A poet could...such a jocund company. I gazed and gazed, but little thonght, What wealth the show to me had bronght. For oft, when on my couch I lie, In vacant, or in... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - Elocution - 1898 - 614 pages
...thousand saw I, at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee; A poet could not but be gay In such a jocund company; I gazed—and gazed—but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought. They flash upon that... | |
 | Education - 1898 - 724 pages
...CHILDREN AND LITERATURE. MRS. KATE MORRIS CONE, HARTFORD, VERMONT. " The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee. A poet could not but be gay In such a jocund company." " What's 'jocund?' What's 'a poet?'" interrupts she in one breath. " ' Jocund ' means gay, lively,... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1898 - 1154 pages
...thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, But they out-did the sparkling waves in glee. A poet could not but be gay In such a jocund company. 1 gazed and gazed, but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought. For oft, when on my couch... | |
 | W. H. Venable, LL. D. - 1898 - 152 pages
...thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced ; but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee : A poet could not but be gay, 1 5 In such a jocund company : I gazed— and gazed— but little thought What wealth the show to me... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Poetry - 1898 - 152 pages
...thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced ; but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee : A poet could not but be gay, 15 In such a jocund company : I gazed — and gazed — but little thought What wealth the show to... | |
 | Reuen Thomas - Authors, American - 1899 - 322 pages
...breeze." Immediately the professor struck in as he saw them : — " ' The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee. A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company.' "The yellow broom, the stately oak, the lightleaved poplar, beeches, elms, sycamores of majestic size,... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis, Lewis, Edwin Hebert - American literature - 1899 - 440 pages
...thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced ; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay 15 For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, 20 They flash upon that inward eye... | |
 | Harry Pratt Judson, Ida Catherine Bender, Ida C. Bender - Readers - 1900 - 530 pages
...thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee : A poet could not but be gay, 10 In such a jo&und company ; I gazed and gazed, — but little thought What wealth the show to me... | |
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The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company... 
