 My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 69edited by - 1878Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...lay Beside this Fountain's brink. " My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd, For the same sound is in my ears, Which in those days I heard. " Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser mind Mourns less .for what age takes away Than... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this Fountain's brink. " My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. 133 " Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this Fountain's brink. " My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For' the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. " Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind y Mourns less for what age takes away '... | |
 | 1834 - 442 pages
...introduction of such verses as bered melody, as Wordsworth says, — " Mine eyes are filled with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in mine ears That heretofore I heard." It was this feeling, so truly imbued in most natural and original... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this Fountain's brink. " My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. " Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...I lay Beside this Fountain's brink. My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pages
...lay leside this Fountain's brink. • My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly Mirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. •Taut fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser mind Mounts less for what age takes away Than... | |
 | 1831 - 502 pages
...every look o'erfiows with kindness—- My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stin-M, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. What scene does the fantastic spell of association next waken ? No. Be these recollections sacred to... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1833 - 396 pages
...(Schol. in Aristoph. Nub. 599.) p. 54. Since a sweet familiar tone, <^c.] " My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard." — Wordsworth. p. 56. And what am I to do for you in return.^ — The actual or traditional compact... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 596 pages
...but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink. My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay, And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what... | |
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