 For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with...  Scenes and Impressions in Egypt and in Italy - Page 435by Moyle Sherer - 1825 - 435 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Literary Criticism - 1866 - 362 pages
...as a perfect embodiment of the poetical spirit, is the following from the poem on Tin tern Abbey : I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour...humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts... | |
 | Mary Sands Griffin - Germany - 1865 - 468 pages
...suffered much, to appreciate the deep sentiment of either. Wordsworth understood this when he said : ,,I have learned ,,To look on nature, not as in the...oftentimes ,,The still sad music of humanity: ,,Not rough nor grating, tho' of ample power ,,To chasten and subdue." I could now realize all the phases... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...mourn nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed ; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as on the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
 | Michael J. Buckley, SJ - Religion - 1999 - 254 pages
...of human existence and in that lesson learn an abiding compassion and discover one's own humanity: For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.35 This educated sensibility could open up to a curriculum whose courses... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 274 pages
...develop more deeply the multiple aspects of religious spatiality. 1. THE MYSTICAL STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts;... | |
 | Carmela Ciuraru - American poetry - 2001 - 276 pages
...nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts;... | |
 | Margaret Hebblethwaite - Religion - 2000 - 452 pages
...whole of the sky, could appear therein and be seen. Maria Petyt Seventeenth-century Flemish mystic For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth; but hearing often-times The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
 | John P. Anderson - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 620 pages
...from the Star of the Sea, if thou wouldst avoid shipwreck. Compare also Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey: For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
 | Stuart Briscoe - Religion - 2010 - 773 pages
...Wordsworth wandered over the hills and beside the lakes, looking and learning. In his mature years he wrote, For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.14... | |
 | Leon Waldoff - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 192 pages
...nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. These... | |
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