There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day,... A Book of Seventeenth Century Lyrics - Pagina 275a cura di - 1899 - 314 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| 1872 - 692 pagine
...from the earth. * HERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, l To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light — The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it has been of yore : Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day,... | |
| Kathleen Knox - 1873 - 214 pagine
...THE LITTLE ONES. BY KATHLEEN KNOX. "There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight. To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. Heaven lies about us in our infancy." WORDSWORTH WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY H, W.... | |
| Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1873 - 262 pagine
...RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD. I. THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day,... | |
| William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 pagine
...FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD. THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. 5 It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night... | |
| Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - 1874 - 300 pagine
...began and read the first stanza: — There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it has been of yore; Turn wheresoever I may, By night or day,... | |
| Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - 1874 - 314 pagine
...began and read the first stanza : — There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it has been of yore ; Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 pagine
...FROM RECOLLECTIONS or EARLY CHILDHOOD. THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hatli been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pagine
...FROM RECOLLECTIONS or EARLY CHILDHOOD. THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, aml every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pagine
...Recollection! of early Childhood.* There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn whcresoe'er I may, By night... | |
| Jay Parini - 1997 - 294 pagine
...Wordsworth says in his famous "Ode" (1807), There was a time when meadow, grove and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or... | |
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