 The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!  The Vista of English Verse - Page 3221911 - 654 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1870 - 500 pages
...Mighty prophet I Seer blest ! on whom those truths do rest which we are toiling all our lives to find; thou, over whom thy immortality broods like the day,...strife? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight, and custom lie upon thee with a weight heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! §§ 10 —... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...toiling all our lives to find; Thou, over whom thy immortality Broods like the day, a master o'er the slave, A presence which is not to be put by; Thou...strife ? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a. weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy !... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation. VIII. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy desert air. Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless...Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood. freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! IX. 0 joy... | |
 | 1871 - 476 pages
...whole vocation Were endless imitation. ODE. 245 VIII. Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy soul's immensity ! Thou best philosopher, who yet...strife ? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! IX. O joy... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 pages
...truths do rest Which we are toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave I Thou over whom thy immortality Broods like the day,...strife? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life 1 IX. O joy... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...heritage-, thou eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty prophet ! seer blest...being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoki The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Full... | |
 | Mother - 1872 - 366 pages
...Mighty Prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find ; Thou, over whom thy Immortality Broods like the Day,...earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring th' inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Full soon thy Soul shall have her... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...immortality Broods like the day, a master o'er a slave, A presence which is not to be put by; 120 — Thou little child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born...yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? 125 Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 pages
...heritage ! thou eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep Haunted for ever by the eternal mind ! — Mighty prophet ! Seer blest,...strife ? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! 0 joy ! that... | |
 | Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1873 - 262 pages
...'Tirepiovos auyais Tcros vTTepKpefJ.a.Ta.1, /SacriXeus ^' ws OTJTOS dvaa-cruv TC 7rdpe<jTi Kal ou/c Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born...strife ? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! IX. O joy... | |
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