| Henry Norman Hudson - 1882 - 720 pàgines
...Take with you some ambitious Youth; For, restless Wanderer, I, in truth, Am all unfit to be your mate. Long have I loved what I behold, The night that calms, the day that elieera; The common growth of mother Earth Suffices me, — her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pàgines
...something in a flying horse, There 's something in a huge balloon. Peter Bell. Praia yve. Stanza}. The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me, — her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. Stanza 27. Full twenty times was Peter feared, For once that Peter was... | |
| John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pàgines
...creed is contained in the two following passages. The first is from the prologue to Peter Bell : — Long have I loved what I behold, — The night that...mother earth Suffices me — her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. The dragon's wing,* the magic ring,f I shall not covet for my dower,... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1886 - 304 pàgines
...the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." And again: " Long have I loved what I behold, The night that calms,...mother earth Suffices me — her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears." Wordsworth's life was outwardly uneventful. The companionship of the... | |
| 1886 - 548 pàgines
...THE BEST OF MEN. WELL-DISPOSED youths may find that goodness of heart and openness LONG HAVE I LOVED. LONG have I loved what I behold — The night that...cheers ; The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices тле — her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. The dragon's wing, the magic ring, I... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton - 1888 - 504 pàgines
...of human character they served to make or mar. His own nature was of this primitive humanity : — " Long have I loved what I behold — The night that...mother earth Suffices me — her tears her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears." He knew how these simple influences could not be received into the heart... | |
| Frank McAlpine - 1888 - 428 pàgines
...passed his brightest days. He enjoyed retirement and almost perfect happiness, as seen in his lines : Long have I loved what I behold, The night that calms, the day that cheers; The common growth of mother-earth Suffices me— her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. The dragon's wing,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1888 - 350 pàgines
...with you some ambitious Youth ! For, restless Wanderer ! I, in truth, Am all unfit to be your mate. Long have I loved what I behold, The night that calms, the day that cheers ; The common growth of mother-earth Suffices me — her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. The dragon's wing,... | |
| William Wordsworth, Henry Norman Hudson - 1889 - 251 pàgines
...Take with you some ambitious Youth; For, restless Wanderer, I, in truth, Am all unlit to be your mate. Long have I loved what I behold, The night that calms,...mother Earth. Suffices me, — her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. The dragon's wing, the magic ring, I shall not covet for my dower, If... | |
| William Angus Knight, Wordsworth Society - 1889 - 388 pàgines
...have been. Both painter and poet seem to have said, ' Enough of weeping swains and funereal urns,' The common growth of mother Earth Suffices me, her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. Turner's work, like the world of nature, has its delicate mystery of... | |
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