 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 [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 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... | |
 | lady Emma Carolina Wood - 1872 - 324 pages
...he said. " You brought back to me all the freshness of early years. My eyes are dimmed with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred ; For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard." " So you are sufficiently fond of poetry to quote it, admiral?" " Yes, my dear lady, sailors mostly... | |
 | Osborne William Tancock - 1872 - 364 pages
...there had been no leisure to prepare. — STANLEY, Jewish Church. 29. 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 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... | |
 | John William Mackail - 1910 - 306 pages
...into my mind A day like this which I have left Full thirty years behind. 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. In all the Theocritean pastorals there is, expressed or implicit, this accent of yearning. Sometimes,... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 968 pages
...think How oft, a rigorous man. I lay Beside this fountain's brink. " My eyes are dim with childish grew mutinous For a plate of turtle green and glutinous) •• AYhich in those days I heard. "Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less... | |
 | 1910 - 298 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 away, Than... | |
 | Eric Sutherland Robertson - 1911 - 482 pages
...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... | |
 | James Weber Linn - 1911 - 286 pages
...lay Beside this fountain's brink. " My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd, 30 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, 35... | |
 | A. E. Sharp - 1911 - 264 pages
...throng. 15. Little he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. 16. The same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. 17. Ere we came to Leonard's rock He sang those witty rhymes. 18. Through the rocks we wound ; The... | |
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