 | Tess Cosslett - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 205 pages
...play; And the questions that perplexed me Have vanished quite away ... For what are all our contrivings And the wisdom of our books. When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks?54 Kingsley seems to be placing himself in the anti-scientific position of Charles Lamb when... | |
 | John Breeding, PH.D. PH. - 2011 - 206 pages
...Encouragement and Delight to his Reading, when he finds there is some Use and Pleasure in it. Ibid., 156 Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were...For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, last stanza, "Children," Birds of Passage, 1858 Children are God's apostles,... | |
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Come to me, O ye children ! And whisper in my ear What the birds and the winds are singing In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books, When compared with your caresses, And the gladness of your looks ? Ye are... 
