 | James Burton (schoolmaster.) - 1868 - 216 pages
...single blow, the tangled root I severed, At which the poor old man so long and vainly had endeavoured. The tears into his eyes were brought, and thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart,2 1 thought they never would have done. I've3 heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds with coldness... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 424 pages
...single blow The tangled root I severed, At which the poor old Man so long And vainly had endeavoured. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and...of his heart, I thought They never would have done. — I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning ; Alas ! the gratitude of... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...single blow The tangled root I severed, At which the poor old man so long Auil vaiuly had endeavored. o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting...ear, at which he starts, and wakes ; And, being thus WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. LONDON CHURCHES. I STOOD, one Sunday morning, Before a large church door, The congregation... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1871 - 392 pages
...poor old Man so long And vainly had endeavored. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks-and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I...coldness still returning ; Alas ! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning. 1798. vn. WRITTEN IN GERMANT, ON ONE OF THE COLDEST DATS OP THE CENTUBY.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1871 - 622 pages
...single blow The tangled root I severed, At which the poor old man so long And vainly had endeavoured. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and...of his heart, I thought They never would have done. — I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning, Alas ! the gratitude of... | |
 | M. H. Abrams - 1975 - 494 pages
...thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. —I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning. Alas! the gratitude of men Has oftner left me mourning. (U. 97-104) The first four lines of this final stanza alter our perspective... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1984 - 860 pages
...stores as silent thought can bring, 0 gentle Reader! you would find A tale in every thing. and 1 have heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still...returning: Alas! the gratitude of men Has oftener left me mourning.4 or in a still higher strain the six beautiful quatrains, page 134. Thus fares it still in... | |
 | William S. Hamrick - 1985 - 290 pages
...Wordsworth finds more pathos in the experience of such a difference. As he tells us in Simon Lee: I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! The gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning. How, then, is a person presented as kind in a way phenomenologically... | |
 | Don H. Bialostosky - 1992 - 336 pages
...single blow The tangled root I sever'd, At which the poor old man so long And vainly had endeavour'd. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and...of his heart, I thought They never would have done. - I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning. Alas! the gratitude of men... | |
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I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning. 
