 But she was train'd in Nature's school, Nature had blest her. A waking eye, a prying mind, A heart that stirs, is hard to bind, A hawk's keen sight ye cannot blind, Ye could not Hester. My sprightly neighbour, gone before To that unknown and silent shore,...  The Works of Charles Lamb - Page 67by Charles Lamb - 1852 - 648 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1821 - 420 pages
...mind, A heart that M in,, is hard to bind ; A hawk's keen sight ye cannot blind, Ye could not Holer. My sprightly neighbour, gone before To that unknown...bliss that would not go away, A sweet forewarning ? A FAREWELL TO TOBACCO. MAT the Babylonish curse Straight confound my stammering verse, If I can a... | |
 | John Iliff Wilson - 1821 - 348 pages
...poet, for some time, says he could not By force be led To think upon the wormy bed And her together. My sprightly neighbour, gone before To that unknown...bliss that would not go away, A sweet fore-warning ? " In coming to the * Essays' and their masterly criticism, we must repress our tendency to make extracts,... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1824 - 340 pages
...heart that stirs, is hard to bind ; A hawk's keen sight ye cannot blind, ,- . Ye could not Hester. My sprightly neighbour, gone before To that unknown...bliss that would not go away, A sweet forewarning ? A FAREWELL TO TOBACCO. May the Babylonish curse Straight confound my stammering verse, If I can a... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...is hard to bind, A hawk's keen sight ye cannot blind, Ye could not Hester. My «prighily neighbor, gone before To that unknown and silent shore, Shall...bliss that would not go away, A sweet forewarning! TO CHARLES LLOYD, AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR. ALONE, obscure, without a friend, A cheerless, solitary thing,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...is hard to bind; A hawk's keen sight ye cannot blind,— Ye could not Hester. My sprightly neighbor, gone before To that unknown and silent shore! Shall...bliss that would not go away, — A sweet forewarning ? THE HOUSEKEEPER. THE frugal snail, with forecast of repose, Carries his house with him where'er he... | |
 | 1836 - 514 pages
...sura, is hard to bind, A hawk's keen sight ye cannot blind, Ye could not Hester. My sprightly neighbor, gone before To that unknown and silent shore, Shall...bliss that would not go away, A sweet forewarning! TO CHARLES LLOYD, AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR. AI.ONE, obscure, without a friend, A cheerless, solitary thing,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 pages
...for the Georgics." The verses must have been written in the very happiest of Lamb's serious moods. I cannot refrain from the luxury of quoting the conclusion,...ray Hath struck a bliss upon the day, A bliss that could not go away, A sweet forewarning ?" The following letters were written to Manning, at Paris,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 pages
...hawk's keen sight ye cannot blind, Ye could not Hester. My sprightly neighbour, gone before To thut unknown and silent shore, Shall we not meet, as heretofore....upon the day, A bliss that would not go away, A sweet fore -warning ? WAS it some sweet device of faery That mocked my steps with many a lonely glade, And... | |
 | 1858 - 690 pages
...reader's attention. He stops to read them again and again, and dwell on their singular sweetness : " My sprightly neighbour, gone before To that unknown...struck a bliss upon the day, A bliss that would not go awaT, A sweet forewarning ?" Sometimes in his sonnets the reader finds a broad, deep thought expressed... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1842 - 440 pages
...mind, A heart that stirs, is hard to hind, A hawk's keen sight ye cannot blind, Ye could not Hester. My sprightly neighbour, gone before To that unknown...bliss that would not go away, A sweet forewarning ? SONNETS. WAS it some sweet device of faery That mocked my steps with many a lonely glade, And fancied... | |
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