 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 harrison ainsworth - 1857 - 516 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.§ • Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, vol. ip 63. •J ' Ibid. pp. 54, sq. J Ibid. vol. iii.... | |
 | 1857 - 494 pages
...are no more." Now turn to Wordsworth's treatment of the same theme : " 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 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 * Down to the vale this water steers. —... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 pages
...lay Beside this fountain's brink. " 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 age takes awf>y Than... | |
 | M E. Hammond - 1858 - 352 pages
...welcomed by Mrs. Ward. 251 CHAPTER XXIII. MY eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirrrd ; For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. WORDSWORTH. DR. LEICESTER'S surprise at the unexpected advent of Miss Dudley was not diminished by... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...lay Beside this fountain's brink. " 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. " The blackbird in the summer trees, The lark upon the hill, Let loose their carols when they please,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 pages
...but V How oft, a vigorous man, I lay beside this fountain's brinn My eyes are filled with childish tears, my heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears that in those days I heard 5. FREEDOM. — Bryant. 0 Freedom ! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1859 - 344 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." And so I dwell among them, and at my pleasure am again a solitary child,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1860 - 670 pages
...think how oft' a vigorous man, he lay beside that 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.* While Wordsworth was labouring, together with his Quaker friend, Thomas Wilkinson, in the said Friend's... | |
 | Virginia De Forrest - 1860 - 368 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... | |
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