 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 128 pages
...swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then, That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow ! I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender spires Were close against the sky ; It was... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1861 - 394 pages
...air must rush as fresh My spirit flew in feathers then, That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow ! I remember, I remember The fir trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky : It was a... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1862 - 522 pages
...swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then, That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow ! I remember, I remember...fir-trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender toj s Were close against the sky : It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I 'm... | |
 | American poetry - 1923 - 748 pages
...swallows on the wing; My spirit flew in feathers then, That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow! I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...(1. 1 -4) BXAP; EnRP; FaBoCo; NA; NOBL / Remember, I Remember 5 I remember, I remember The fir trees . (1. 1 1—12) BeLS; EnRP; GTBS; GTBS-P Marmion 18 further off from Heaven Than when I was a boy. (1. 25—32) BLPA; CH; ELP; EnRP; FaBoBe; FaBV; FaFP;... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Literary Collections - 1995 - 212 pages
...pools could hardly cool The fever on my hrow! I rememher, I rememher, The fir trees dark and high; It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy...know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a hoy. MARY (BOTHAM) HOWITT (1799-1888) Hownr and her hushand William were two of the mosl famous, most... | |
 | Fred Sedgwick - Creative writing (Elementary education) - 2000 - 234 pages
...And summer pools could hatdly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember, The tir trees datk and high; I used to think their slender tops Were...the sky. It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis lirtle joy To know I'm fatther oft trom Heaven Than when I was a boy. Thomas Hood This is a valuable... | |
 | Bible - 1956 - 356 pages
...and heaven is forgotten. In his poem 'I Remember, I Remember', Thomas Hood wrote with wistful pathos: I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high;...close against the sky. It was a childish ignorance 240 But now 'tis little joy To know, I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. If we think... | |
 | Ashby Bland Crowder - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 430 pages
...Heaven, which takes its title from Thomas Hood's "I Remember": I remember, 1 remember, The fir trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops...But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heav'n Than when I was a boy. The narrative of Farther Off from Heaven begins when thirteen-year-old... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 778 pages
...swallows on the wing; My spirit flew in feathers then, That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow! I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish... | |
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I remember, I remember The fir trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from- Heaven Than when I was a boy. 
