| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1800 - 240 pages
...childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd, For the same sound is ill my ears, Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser...for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The blackbird in the summer trees. The lark upon the hill, l*t loose their carols when they please,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...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....for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. " The black-bird in the summer trees, The lark upon th'e hill,, . I ,ct loose- their carols when they... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. 133 " Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser...for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. " The Blackbird in the summer trees, The Lark upon the hill, Let loose their carols when they "please,... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...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 y Mourns less for what age takes away ' Than what it leaves behind. " The Blackbird in the summer trees,... | |
| Walter Scott - Scotland - 1816 - 328 pages
...heart is idly stirr'd, < •.- ' •• For the same sound is in my ears . Which in these days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay ; And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what time takes away, Than what he leaves behind. Well, time cures every wound, and though the scar may... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 316 pages
...Has oftencr left me mourning." or in a still higher strain the six beautiful quatrains, page 134. " Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away That what it leaves behind. The Blackbird in the summer trees, The Lark upon the hill, Let loose their... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 248 pages
...childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd, For the same sound is in my ears Which in these days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay; And yet the wiser mind Mourns; less for what time takes away, Than what he leaves behind. Well, time cures every wound, and though the scar may... | |
| 1828 - 746 pages
...Chaise as still and peaceful as before.” - “TIME'S TAKINGS AND LEAVINGS. BY BERNARD BARTON, SSQ. Thus fares it still in our decay.; And yet the wiser...less for what Age takes away, Than what it leaves bebind.—WoRDswoRru. “WHAT does Age take away? Bloom from the cheek, and lustre from the eye, The... | |
| John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...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...for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The Blackbird in the summer trees, The Lark upon the hill, Let loose their carols when they please,... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - English fiction - 1827 - 382 pages
...tears, My heart Is Idly stlrr'd, For the same sound la In mine ears, Which in those days I heard. " Thus fares It still in our decay ; And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what it takes away, Than what It leaves behind." Perhaps I am fanciful in attributing to the old gentleman... | |
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