 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 650 pages
...lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again ? Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song...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 after it was... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 648 pages
...lay, Familiar matter of to-day ? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again? Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song...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 after it was... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...Familiar mai ter of to-day ? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain. That has been, and may be again ! Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang As if her song...work, And o'er the sickle bending ; — I listened — motionless and siill ; And as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore. Long after it... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 pages
...lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again ? Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song...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 after it was... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 pages
...lay, Familiar matter of to-day ? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may te again ? Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song...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 after it was... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - 1881 - 348 pages
...lay, Familiar matter of to-day ? Some natural sorrow, loss or pain That has been, and may be again ? Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang As if her song...singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending; I listen'd till I had my fill ; And as I mounted up the hill The music in my heart I bore Long after... | |
 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 pages
...lay, Familiar matter of to-day ? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again ! Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song...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 it was heard no more. W. Wordsworth.... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 492 pages
...lay; Familiar matter of to-day ? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again? Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang As if her song...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 it was heard no more. From Wordsworth's... | |
 | 1882 - 598 pages
...natural 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...bending ; — • I listened till I had my fill, And when I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.' This is... | |
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Hebrides. Will no one 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... 
