 For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with...  The North American Review - Page 354publié par - 1844Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1896 - 858 pages
..." All that is, at all, Lasts ever, past recall, Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure." 4. "I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity." 5. Which of our well-known hymns do you think best suited to the use... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1860 - 164 pages
...nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompence. For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the...hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pages
...COLERIDGE. Nature's self, which is the breath of God, Or his pure word by miracle revealed. WORDSWORTH. I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sml music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. WORDSWOETH.... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 pages
...will find him tenfold more a man of steel. Feathered Tribes of the British Islands. NATURE. Lesson of For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. Lines,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1866 - 508 pages
...nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompenee. For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 pages
...mourn nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed ; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 362 pages
...as a perfect embodiment of the poetical spirit, is the following from the poem on Tin tern Abbey : I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And... | |
 | Mary Sands Griffin - 1865 - 468 pages
...suffered much, to appreciate the deep sentiment of either. Wordsworth understood this when he said : ,,I have learned ,,To look on nature, not as in the...,,Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes ,,The still sad music of humanity: ,,Not rough nor grating, tho' of ample power ,,To chasten and subdue."... | |
 | James Mason Hoppin - 1868 - 494 pages
...voice speaking to the soul of its wants, origin, and aim, even as God talked with Adam in the garden. " For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity." " For the man, Who, in this spirit, communes with the forms Of Nature... | |
 | Philip Bolton - 1870 - 1098 pages
...eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things ... For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.... | |
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