 Dumb yearnings, hidden appetites, are ours, And they must have their food. Our childhood sits, Our simple childhood, sits upon a throne That hath more power than all the elements. I guess not what this tells of Being past, Nor what it augurs of the life...  The Philology of the English Tongue - Pagina 592di John Earle - 1880 - 700 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | William Wordsworth - 1850 - 412 pagine
...bound of smart reproach, Such as an idler deals with in his shame, I to the sport betook myself again. A gracious spirit o'er this earth presides, And o'er...throne That hath more power than all the elements. I guess not what this tells of Being past, Nor what it augurs of the life to come; But so it is, and,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1850 - 388 pagine
...bound of smart reproach, Such as an idler deals with in his shame, I to the sport betook myself again. A gracious spirit o'er this earth presides, And o'er...throne That hath more power than all the elements. I guess not what this tells of Being past, Nor what it augurs of the life to come ; But so it is, and,... | |
 | 1850 - 544 pagine
...these will live till man shall be no more. Dumb yearnings, hidden appetites, are ours, And they muit have their food. Our childhood sits, Our simple childhood,...throne That hath more power than all the elements. I guess not what this tells of Being past, Nor what it augurs of the life to come ; But so it is, and,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 750 pagine
...spread liko day, and something in the shape Of these will live till man shall be no more. Dumb yearning, hidden appetites are ours, And they must have their...throne That hath more power than all the elements. I guess not what this tells of Being past, Nor what it augurs of the life to come;* But so it is, and,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pagine
...toward the imperishable heavens From her own lonely altar? and the passage in "THE PRELUDE," Book V: Our childhood sits, Our simple childhood, sits upon...throne That hath more power than all the elements. I guess not what this tells of Being past, Nor what it augurs of the life to come ; etc. 14 * » »... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 432 pagine
...bound of smart reproach, Such as an idler deals with in his shame, I to the sport betook myself again. A gracious spirit o'er this earth presides, And o'er...throne That hath more power than all the elements. I guess not what this tells of Being past, Nor what it augurs of the life to come ; But so it is, and,... | |
 | 1864 - 594 pagine
...creation when he acknowledged the majesty inherent in the child-idea in the remarkable words, — " Our simple childhood sits upon a throne That hath more power than all the elements." Nowhere is there such a personification of the Christ -child, who, throned on His mother's bosom in... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1869 - 412 pagine
...repeatedly refers to this mood; and in "The Prelude," by Wordsworth, we find the following passage : — " Our childhood sits, Our simple childhood, sits upon...throne That hath more power than all the elements. I guess not what this tells of Being past, Nor what it augurs of the life to come." In his "Intimations... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1869 - 432 pagine
...repeatedly refers to this mood; and in "The Prelude," by Wordsworth, we find the following passage : — " Our childhood sits, Our simple childhood, sits upon...throne That hath more power than all the elements. I guess not what this tells of Being fast, Nor what it augurs of the life to come." In his " Intimations... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 382 pagine
...bound of smart reproach, Such as an idler deals with in his shame, I to the sport betook myself again. A gracious spirit o'er this earth presides, And o'er...throne That hath more power than all the elements. I guess not what this tells of Being past, Nor what it augurs of the life to come ; But so it is ;... | |
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