| William Wordsworth - 1908 - 586 páginas
...Would that the little Flowers were born to live, Conscious of half the pleasure which they give ; 1 In the class entitled 'Musings,' in Mr. Southey's Minor Poems, is one upon bis own miniature Picture, taken in childhood, and another upon a landscape painted by Caspar Poussin.... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 968 páginas
...formal mould, But from its own divine vitality. 18421 1842. SO FAIR, SO SWEET, WITHAL SO SENSITIVE Nowhere by thee my steps shall be, For ever and for...thousand suns will stream on thee, A thousand moons ! And what if hence a bold desire should mount High as the Sun, that he could take account Of all that... | |
| 1912 - 648 páginas
...sleep, Over the whole anew to cast Their mantle of slumber deep. ENGLISH WILD FLOWERS. By RB MATSON. " So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive; Would that...flowers were born to live Conscious of half the pleasure they give." " The world is too much with us, late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our... | |
| Caleb Thomas Winchester - 1916 - 330 páginas
...clouds that drifted over Nab Scar,1 or to the shadow cast by a daisy upon a stone at the roadside. So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive, Would that...shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone ! And what if hence a bold desire should mount High as the Sun, that he could take account Of all that... | |
| George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 páginas
...casting in a formal mould. But from its own divine vitality. SO FAIR, SO SWEET, WITHAL SO SENSITIVE 1845 ht; Till wrapt in flames, in ruin hurl'd, Sinks the...ruin wild, Agony, that pants for breath, 40 Despair 5 The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone ! And what... | |
| Thomas Ernest Rankin, Wilford Merton Aikin - 1917 - 518 páginas
...painting which Ruskin was so enthusiastic over in the last two of the following lines of Wordsworth's, — So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive ; — Would...Conscious of half the pleasure which they give, That to the mountain daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow thrown On the smooth surface... | |
| New York (State). Department of Agriculture - 1917 - 634 páginas
...group. Of these the following varieties are recommended: Campernelle, Rugulosus, and Tenuior. SNOWDROP Would that the little flowers were born to live, Conscious of half the pleasure which they give. — Wordsworth The snowdrop is an old-time garden favorite with small dainty flowers almost rivaling... | |
| Thomas Ernest Rankin, Wilford Merton Aikin - 1917 - 490 páginas
...flowers were born to live Conscious of half the pleasure which they give, That to the mountain daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow thrown On the smooth surface of the naked stone. Musical as Byron and Scott were, they failed when they tried to play the harp which... | |
| Frank Vigor Morley - 1924 - 226 páginas
...thought they had heard," bestowed it somewhere carefully for preservation.' The resulting poem was: 'So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive; Would that...of half the pleasure which they give, That to this mountain daisy's self were known, The beauty of its star-shaped shadow thrown On the smooth surface... | |
| Oliver Elton - 1924 - 500 páginas
...unsafe to neglect Wordsworth, for his power is apt to reappear. The lines on the mountain-daisy, with The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone, were written when he was seventy-four. m The tributes of his sister, and Brougham Castle, and many... | |
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