The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free. But we are pressed... The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Seite 661894Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 Seiten
...Blackbird in the summer trees, The Lark upon the hill, Let loose their carols when they "please, Are quiet when they will. " With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see r A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free : " But we are pressed by heavy laws ; And... | |
| William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 Seiten
...our decay ; And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the...hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 Seiten
...our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the...hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 Seiten
...our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the...hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 Seiten
...our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the...hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 322 Seiten
...wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The blackbird in the summer trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With nature never do tJiey wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 450 Seiten
...in the birds, so true to universal nature is the standard of this virtue ; for, as poets say, — " The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the...hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1853 - 300 Seiten
...our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carois when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife;... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 392 Seiten
...yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away, Than what it leaves behind. "The blackbiijl amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. " With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and... | |
| 1857 - 496 Seiten
...our decay ; And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the...hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and... | |
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