 An idle poet, here and there, Looks round him; but, for all the rest, The world, unfathomably fair, Is duller than a witling's jest. Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach, They...  The North American Review - Seite 2021923Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1869 - 716 Seiten
...round him ; but, for all the rest, Tho world, unfathomably fair, Is duller than a witling's jest. ' Love wakes men, once a lifetime, each ; They lift their heavy lids, and look j And, lo I what one sweet page can tench They read with Joy, then shut the book.' How true this is:... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1878 - 288 Seiten
...Looks round him ; but, for all the rest, The world, unfathomably fair, Is duller than a witling's jest. Love wakes men, once a lifetime each ; They lift their...and look;. And, lo, what one sweet page can teach, And some give thanks, and some blaspheme, And most forget ; but, either way, That and the Child's unheeded... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1879 - 264 Seiten
...Looks round him ; but, for all the rest, The world, unfathomably fair, Is duller than a witling's jest. Love wakes men, once a lifetime each ; They lift their...unheeded dream Is all the light of all their day. A CHILD'S LOVE. AS, ere the Spring has any power, ^ The almond branch all turns to flower, Though not... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1879 - 248 Seiten
...Looks round him ; but, for all the rest, The world, unfathomably fair, Is duller than a witling's jest. Love wakes men, once a lifetime each ; They lift their...unheeded dream Is all the light of all their day. A CHILD'S LOVE. AS, ere the Spring has any power, •*•*• The almond branch all turns to flower,... | |
 | 1883 - 378 Seiten
...Looks round him ; but, for all the rest, The world, unfathomably fair, Is duller than a witling's jest. Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their...unheeded dream Is all the light of all their day. THE TOYS My little Son, who look'd from thoughtful eyes, And moved and spoke in quiet grown-up wise,... | |
 | English poets - 1883 - 364 Seiten
...Looks round him ; but, for all the rest, The world, unfathomably fair, Is duller than a witling's jest. Love wakes men, once a lifetime each ; They lift their...and look ; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach, And some give thanks, and some blaspheme, And most forget; but, either way, That and the Child's unheeded... | |
 | Jane Goodwin Austin - 1891 - 416 Seiten
...should press, the man and the maid entered into that fairyland we all pass through once in our lives. x "And some give thanks, and some blaspheme, And most forget, but either way, That and the child's forgotten dream Are all the light of all our day/' " Alick ! Sally ! Come to dinner ! " cried Betty's... | |
 | 1893 - 322 Seiten
...Looks round him ; but, for all the rest, The world, unfathomably fair, Is duller than a witling's jest. Love wakes men, once a lifetime each ; They lift their...and look ; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach, And some give thanks, and some blaspheme, And most forget ; but, either way, That and the Child's unheeded... | |
 | Coventry Patmore, Francis Thompson - 1894 - 320 Seiten
...Looks round him ; but, for all the rest, The world, unfathomably fair, Is duller than a witling's jest. Love wakes men, once a lifetime each ; They lift their...unheeded dream Is all the light of all their day. III. The Spirifs Epochs. Not in the crises of events, Of compass'd hopes, or fears fulfill'd, Or acts... | |
 | 1895 - 416 Seiten
...Is duller than a witling's jest. Love wakes men, once a lifetime each ; They lift their heavy eyes, and look ; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach,...unheeded dream Is all the light of all their day. COVENTRY PATMORE. 72 Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with... | |
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