 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 74edited by - 1878Full view - About this book
 | George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 pages
...vigorous man, I lay Beside this fountain's brink. My eyes are dim with childish tear?, 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... | |
 | 1863 - 858 pages
...vigorous man I lay Beside this fountain-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." Now, it would have been the hight of absurdity for Wordsworth to have put this song into the lips of... | |
 | Viscountess Mary Woolley Gibbings Cotton Combermere - 1863 - 444 pages
...OF AGE. 345 CHAPTEB IX. PECULIARITIES OF AGE. 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 time takes away, Than... | |
 | Book - 1864 - 396 pages
...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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 pages
...P. FLETCHER AN OLD MAN'S REFLECTIONS 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 time takes away, than... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1864 - 358 pages
...expressed in a poem which I have heard repeated : * My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days 1 heard. Thus fares it still in our decay; And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what time takes away,... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1865 - 482 pages
...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 awa--, Than... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 318 pages
...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... | |
 | 1865 - 392 pages
...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. " The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please.... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1865 - 478 pages
...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 awav, Than... | |
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