 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pages
...thought where we in waiting lie; Tliou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of untam'd pleasures, on thy Being's height, Why with such earnest pains...upon thee with a weight, Heavy as. frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy !' that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...thought where we in waiting lie ; Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of untam'd pleasures, on thy Being's height, Why with such earnest pains...upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! 0 joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1828 - 298 pages
...who ia our home." ' How much more sublime than ever, if this is true, is his address to a child : " Thou whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's...thy soul shall have her earthly freight And custom He upon thee with a weight ,' Heavy as frost and deep almost as life !" ^ ' Dear Tom, I have bored... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...in waiting lie ; Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom, on thy Being'* height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke...shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thce with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1832 - 378 pages
...heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet! Seer blest!...yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Pull soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1832 - 378 pages
...thought where we in waiting lie ; Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of untam'd pleasures, on thy Being's height, Why with such earnest pains...upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life .' O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That Nature yet remembers... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...heritage, thou eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet ! Seer blest...upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! VIII. O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 pages
...heritage, thou eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind ; — Mighty prophet ! Seer blest...freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy us frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 pages
...grave ; Thou, over whom thy immortality Broods like the day, — a master o'er a slave, — A presenee which is not to be put by ; Thou little child, yet...upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers... | |
 | 1839 - 446 pages
...That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — flighty Prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths do rest,...upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers... | |
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The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life! 
