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 - 1845 - 660 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... | |
| sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 328 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... | |
| 1892 - 688 pages
...Monkbarns, when speaking to his young friend Lovel in the haunted room : — 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 lets for what age takes away Than... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...but think How oft, a vigorous man, I lay Beside the 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... | |
| 1851 - 854 pages
...many a time moistened every eye in a previously merry circle — ' Mine 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.' As many of our English readers may not have seen this popular song, we quote it in full. It was the... | |
| Isabel Goldsmid - 1852 - 230 pages
...? or not anticipate. CHAPTEE XXIV. 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. WORDSWORTH. MABGABET having one morning, by dint of persuasions, remonstrances, and raillery, prevailed... | |
| Isabel Goldsmid - 1852 - 228 pages
...must not anticipate. CHAPTEE XXIV. 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. WORDSWORTH. MAEGAEET having one morning, by dint of persuasions, remonstrances, and raillery, prevailed... | |
| Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1852 - 1284 pages
...youthful visions till I can almost think I am weaving them again — " My eyes are filled with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears As in those days I heard." This spell of local association has always been strong upon me. As I pass... | |
| George William Curtis - 1852 - 216 pages
...Italy. They were pleasant days, he said, which shall return no more. " My eyes are full of childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears, That in those days I heard. " Thus fares it still in our decay, CATSKILL FALLS HI. JULY. DID not see... | |
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