When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret show, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting... The Vassar Miscellany - Page 2241879Full view - About this book
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868 - 712 pages
...which he did bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art ! Thou tcachcst me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since each reflects in joy its scanty gleam... | |
| 1869 - 182 pages
...peers. to }*** *«* *>* t>2>*411 „«,*«»' ^ag? i'^^i seas. 'TV •p ^^sass. 1 a To the Dandelion. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. SONNET. WHEN the lark carols to the summer morn, Soaring through purple clouds on buoyant wing ; When... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1873 - 730 pages
...which he did bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for...scanty gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret sbov Did we but pay the love we owe. And with a child's undoubtiug wisdom look On all these living... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 484 pages
...he could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, so common art I Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since each reflects m joy its scanty... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...which he did bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears. When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for...pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdo'.n look On all these living pages of God's book. TUB UNIVERSITY OF GOTTINGEN. 353 THE UNIVERSITY... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...he did bring Fresh every day to my untainted years, \Vhen birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth Nature seem, When thou, for all thy gold, no common art ! Thou teachest me to deem More sacredly of every human heart, Since each reflects in... | |
| Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1876 - 272 pages
...which he did bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears, When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. CHARLES WOLFE: 1791—1823. The Burial of Sir John Moore. Charles Wolfe, an Irish clergyman, who died... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 pages
...he could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for...wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. THE GHOST-SEER. YE who, passing graves by night, Glance not to the left nor right, Lest a spirit should... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 450 pages
...he could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for...Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's uudoubting wisdom look On all these living pages of God's book. THE GHOST-SEER. YE who, passing graves... | |
| 1876 - 294 pages
...he could bring Fresh every day to my untainted ears When birds and flowers and I were happy peers. How like a prodigal doth nature seem, When thou, for...scanty gleam Of heaven, and could some wondrous secret s!to\v, Did we but pay the love we owe, And with a child's undoubting wisdom look On all these living... | |
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