 | William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 pagine
...sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may te again ? Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending ; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending ; — • I listened, motionless and still ; And, as 1 mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 308 pagine
...sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again ! Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang As if her song could have no ending ; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending ; — I listened till I had my fill : And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 pagine
...sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again ? Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending ; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending ;— I listened, motionless and still ; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pagine
...silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. . . . Whate'er the theme, — the maiden sang As if her song could have no ending ; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending; — I listened till I had my fill, And as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore Long after... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1882 - 720 pagine
...sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be againl Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending; I saw her singing at her...work, And o'er the sickle bending; — I listen'd, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 492 pagine
...sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again? Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang As if her song could have no ending; I saw her singing at her work And o'er the sickle bending; — I listened till I had my fill, And, when I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore Long after... | |
 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 pagine
...sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again ! Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending ; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending ; — I listened till I had my fill, And when I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after... | |
 | 1882 - 598 pagine
...sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again ? ' Whate'er the theme, the maiden sung As if her song could have no ending ; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending ; — • I listened till I had my fill, And when I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1882 - 560 pagine
...been, and may be again ! Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang As if her song could have no ending ; 1 saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending ; — I listened till I had my fill : And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after... | |
 | Henry John Roby - 1882 - 690 pagine
...corns teasing you (GE). There you go strolling along (GE). Ruth went wandering* over dale and hill (W). I saw her singing at her work and o'er the sickle bending (W). Her maidens thought her dying (Scott). I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds with coldness still... | |
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... tell me what she sings ?Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago : Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss or pain, That has been, and may be again ? Whate'er... 
