 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 1798 - 240 pages
...single blow The tangled root I sever'd, At which the poor old man so long And vainly had endeavour'd. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and...of his heart, I thought They never would have done. — I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning. Alas ! the gratitude of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pages
...single blow The tangled root I sever'd, At which the poor old man so long And vainly had endeavoured. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and...of his heart, I thought They never would have done. —I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning. Alas ! the gratitude of men... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...single blow The tangled root I sever'd, At which the poor Old Man so long And vainly had endeavoured. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and...of his heart, I thought They never would have done. — I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning. Alas ! the gratitude of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...single blow The tangled root I sever'd, At which the poor old man so long And vainly had endeavour'd. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and...of his heart, I thought They never would have done. —I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning: Alas! the gratitude of men... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...single blow The tangled root I severed, At which the poor Old Man so long And vainly had endeavoured. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and...the gratitude of men Has oftener left me mourning. The NIGHTINGALE. Written in April, 1798. \"o cloud, no relique of the sunken day Distinguishes the... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ballads - 1805 - 284 pages
...single blow The tangled root I severed, At which the poor Old Man so long And vainly had endeavoured. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and...the gratitude of men Has oftener left me mourning. The NIGHTINGALE. Written in April, 1798. No cloud, no relique of the sunken day Distinguishes the West,... | |
 | Horse racing - 1809 - 420 pages
...long, And vainly, had endeavour'ct. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seem'd to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. J've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning — Alas! the gratüude of man... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...single blow The tangled root I severed, At which the poor Old Man so long And vainly had endeavoured. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and...of his heart, I thought They never would have done. — I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning. Alas ! the gratitude of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...single blow The tangled root I severed, At which the poor Old Man so long And vainly had endeavoured. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and...of his heart, I thought They never would have done. — I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning. Alas ! the gratitude of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 686 pages
...its powers, scarcely inferior to the greatest of his predecessors, says upon this subject — ' I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning, . Alas ! the gratitude of man Has oftener left me mourning !' 'JTie experience of most good men would agree with the poet's;... | |
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I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning. 
