What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind... The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly - Page 10edited by - 1838Full view - About this book
| Alexander Henley Grant - Church year - 1869 - 646 pages
...evermore* Then sing ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song ! And let the young lambs bound As to the tabor's sound ! We in thought will join your throng, Ye that...for ever taken from my sight ; Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ,, We will grieve not, rather... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...evermore. Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song ! And let the young Lambs bound As to the tabor's sound ! We in thought will join your throng, Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye thn.t through your hearts to-day Feel the gladness of the May ! Though nothing can bring back the hour... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1869 - 266 pages
...cannot weave over again the airy, unsubstantial dream, which reason and experience have dispelled, " What though the radiance, which was once so bright, Be now for ever taken from our sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of glory in the gross, of splendour in the flower... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...evermore. Then, sing ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song ! And let the young lambs bound As to the tabor's sound ! We, in thought, will join your throng, Ye...for ever taken from my sight, — Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...• Then sing, ye birds, sing, sing a joyous Jong ! And let the young lambs bound As to the tabor's sound ! We in thought will join your throng, Ye that...though the radiance which was once so bright Be now forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory... | |
| L. J. Swingle - Romanticism - 1990 - 318 pages
...triumph in Romantic art characteristically retain a sobering reminder of the price triumph has cost: What though the radiance which was once so bright...now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find... | |
| Peter L. Rudnytsky - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 360 pages
...nostalgia is accepted and the value of loss is discovered in the gain of an adult faith and wisdom. What though the radiance which was once so bright...now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find... | |
| William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song! 170 And let the young Lambs bound As to the tabor's sound! We in thought will join your throng, Ye that...now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; 1 80 We will grieve not, rather... | |
| Stuart M. Sperry - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...as the ones Hazlitt never tired of quoting from the greatest of his lyrics, the "Intimations Ode": What though the radiance which was once so bright...now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. The sense of loss, endemic to... | |
| Patricia L. Munhall - Nursing - 1994 - 350 pages
...trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home, Heat 'en lies about us in our infancy! What though the radiance which was once so bright...now for ever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find... | |
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