 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! .'*' — Oh joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live,...vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 362 pages
...simple creed that he gives thanks for the remembrance of his youth : Not for these I raise The song oi' thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings...mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised ; And for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet... | |
 | Enaeas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 362 pages
...youth : Not for these I raise The song of thanks und praise; Hut fur those obstinate questionings ()f sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings,...nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised; And for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections. Which, be they what they may, Are yet... | |
 | 1866 - 298 pages
...their eternal ray ?" The more philosophic Wordsworth has spoken of " Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings...nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised." Is not this the feeling that " now we see through a glass darkly," the yearning for something for which... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 pages
...the Persons, down to palsied Age, That Life brings with her in her equipage; As if his whole vocation O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth...shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing ; Uphold us, cherish,... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 pages
...palsied Age, That Life brings with her in her equipage ; As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation. O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth...shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing ; Uphold us, cherish,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...holiday;— Thou Child of Joy, Shout round me, let me hear thy shouts, then happy Shepherd-boy! IV. O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live,...those first affections Those shadowy recollections, Which,be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day. Are yet a master-light of all... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1867 - 360 pages
...worthy to be blest, Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of childhood, whether busy or at rest, Wiih new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: —Not...worlds not realized, High instincts, before which ouivmortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprized: _, But for those first affections, Those... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction. ibid. St. 9. Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings...Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised. Ode. Intimations of Immortality. St. 9. Truths that wake, To perish never. Hid. Though inland far we... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1870 - 524 pages
...Foster-child, her Inmate man, forget the glories he hath known, and that imperial palace whence he came. О joy ! that in our embers is something that doth live,...vanishings ; blank misgivings of a Creature moving about in worlds not realised, high instincts before which our mortal nature did tremble like a guilty thing... | |
| |
O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty,... 
