 | 1862 - 796 pages
...hearing get, who had bat ears, And sight, who bad bat eyes before; I moments live, who lived bat yean, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore."...still more in these religious lines: — " Now chiefly u my natal hour, And only now my prime of life; I will not doubt the love untold, Which not my worth... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...oldest made visible to our senses." Presently this strain of thought rises to the ex pression of verse : "Now chiefly is my natal hour, And only now my prime...will not doubt the love untold, Which not my worth nor want hath bought, Which woo'd me young and woos me old, And to this evening me hath brought." Worthy... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1873 - 430 pages
...measure the progress of the year. I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before, I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. Sitting with our faces now up stream, we studied the landscape by degrees, as one unrolls a map, rock,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1873 - 388 pages
...could not both live and utter it. I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before. I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore." He has this bit of modesty : — THE POET'S DELAY. " In vain I see the morning rise, In vain observe... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pages
...eyes before ; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. Now chiefly is my natal hour, And only now my prime of life, Of manhood's strength it is the flower, 'Tis peace's end, and war's beginning strife. [t comes in summer's... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 pages
...ALENANDER. 237 I moments live, who lived but years, Ami iruth discern, who knew but learning's lore. Now chiefly is my natal hour, And only now my prime of life, Of manhood's strength it is the flower, 'T is peace's end, and war's beginning strife. It comes in... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 pages
...F. ALEXANDER. I moments live, who lived hut years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. Now chiefly is my natal hour, And only now my prime of life, Of manhood's strength it is the flower, 'T is peace's end, and war's beginning strife. It comes in... | |
 | William Fearing Gill - 1880 - 496 pages
...could sing ii1 this wise: " I hearing get, who had but cars ; And sight, who had but eyes before ; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore." He- was a true bard of the woods and fields, and his sayings in prose are sometimes redolent of exquisite... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 pages
...the line which God has writ. I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before ; Now chiefly is my natal hour, And only now my prime of life ; Of manhood's strength it is the flower... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1882 - 368 pages
...are seen in his verses from the same poem (" Inspiration ") so often quoted : — " I will then trust the love untold Which not my worth or want hath bought, — Which wooed me yonng and wooes me old, And to this evening hath me brought." Thoreau's business in life was observation,... | |
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I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. 
