 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1798 - 240 pages
...loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me! — My dear Babe, Who, capable of no articulate...hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it wise To make him Nature's playmate. He knows well The evening star: and once when he awoke... | |
 | 1799 - 614 pages
...pleasantly, And now for our dear homes.— That strain again ! Full faiq it would delay me !• — My dtar Babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound, Mars all...hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it wise To make him Nature's playmate. He knows well The evening star : and once when he awoke... | |
 | 1799 - 618 pages
...loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me ! — My dear Babe, Who, capable of no articulate...with his imitative lisp, How he would place his hand beiide his ear, 31 is little hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it wise... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pages
...loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear homes.— That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me ! — My dear Babe, Who, capable of no articulate...hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it wise To make him Nature's playmate. He knows well The evening star : and once when he awoke... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me ! — My dear Babe, Who, capable of no articulate...hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it wise To make him Nature's playmate. He knows well The evening star ; and once when he awoke... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...loitering long and pleasantly And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me ! My dear Babe, Who, capable of no articulate...hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it wise To make him Nature's playmate. He knows well The evening star : and once when he awoke... | |
 | 1851 - 696 pages
...heard : I " wandered like a breeze." ' Not less tenderly was the ' animosus infans,' addressed in hie father's poem ' The Nightingale.' . . ' That strain...things with his imitative lisp, How he would place his h;ind, beside his ear, His little hand, the small fore finger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 334 pages
...loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ? Full fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate...hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it wise To make him Nature's Play-mate. He knows well The evening-star ; and once, when he awoke... | |
 | 1831 - 1008 pages
...few of Coleridge's beautiful lines to the Nightingale : — " That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound,' Mars all things with hist imitative lisp, How he would place his band beside his ear, His little hand, the small forefinger... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear home. — That strain again! Full fain it would delay me! My dear Babe, Who, capable of no articulate...hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it wise To make him Nature's playmate. He knows well The evening star : and once when he awoke... | |
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Full fain it would delay me! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound, Mars all things with his imitative lisp, How he would place his hand beside his ear, His little hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen! 
