 | 1874 - 332 pages
...blest ; Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledg'd hope still fluttering in his breast : Not for these...vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble, like a guilty thing... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pages
...liberty, the simple creed Of childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still flutter, ing in his breast: — Not for these I raise The song...vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts, before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 pages
...in me doth breed Perpetual benediction ; not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest ; 1 35 Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of childhood,...Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; 140 But for those obstinate ques'tionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings,... | |
 | 1875 - 448 pages
...earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! IX. O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth...vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1875 - 486 pages
...earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! 9. 0 joy! that in our embers is something that doth live,...vanishings, Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts, before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1875 - 660 pages
...foster-child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. IX. O, joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth...new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast; Not for thee I raise The song of thanks and praise ; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward... | |
 | John Bayley - 1971 - 384 pages
...Immortality Ode ' with the sudden drop into a vocabulary of the most searching and haunting accuracy : Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise...of a creature Moving about in worlds not realised . . . Wordsworth seems to blow his blasts as if absent-mindedly: his argument is too intensely scrutinised... | |
 | Epifanio San Juan - 1979 - 148 pages
...subsistence as material without potency is the susceptibility and openness of the poetic imagination: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise:...vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing... | |
 | 1982 - 348 pages
...his way attended: At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day . Oh joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live,...those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things , Falling from us , vanishings , Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1984 - 860 pages
...remembers What was so fugitive! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest;...vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts, before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing... | |
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O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty,... 
