 Nor man nor boy Nor all that is at enmity with joy Can utterly abolish or destroy. Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the...  Parnassus - Page 165edited by - 1874 - 534 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Authors - 1871 - 350 pages
...light of all our seeing. It is from these that we have ecstasy almost as a logical conclusion ; for Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far...travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. We have no space to particularize the felicity... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light p Will sure His offspring keep. On Alpine heights...Brook». 1480. GOD, Abraham's. 'The God of Abraham I And let the young lambs bound As to the tabor's sound ! We in thought will join your throng, Ye that... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal silence : tniths the eternal frost ! Ye wild goats sporting round...the elements ! Utter forth God, and till the lulls shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. X. Then sing, ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...mad endeavor, Nor man, nor boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy I Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland...travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore." Was it nothing for the poet to write in such a... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...eternal silence : truths that wake To perish never ; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, 0f/. k/. A/. ! Wo, in thought, will join your throng Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye that through your hearts... | |
 | Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb - English poetry - 1873 - 262 pages
...ovKer UTTUT d^ai't^o/LieVas d.va.<$>aivf.v /cat rd^S' OUK dyxcXei', ou/c oio-TpoSoi^jTOS tyopfM], IS Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy,...travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. x. Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song!... | |
 | Celeste Marguerite Schenck - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 248 pages
...epithalamic chant recalls Lycidas's retrieval from the waves and Milton's seaside moment of initiated vision: Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far...travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. (1I. 162-68) There is more than regressive compulsion... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - English poetry - 1990 - 338 pages
...than to endure their demands. The resolving image of the ninth stanza precisely stations the poet: Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland...travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore, "Calm" here is to temperament as "inland" is to... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - Philosophy - 1992 - 414 pages
...the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish...travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore!10 The first of the two excerpts given here provides... | |
 | Nicholas V. Riasanovsky - History - 1995 - 128 pages
...The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far...travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret,... | |
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