 The Blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares, and delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy.  De Quincey's works - Side 308af Thomas De Quincey - 1854Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1857 - 496 sider
...by his sister's influence — " She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares, and delicate fears ; A heart the fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and joy." Naturally the rigidity of his mind was clearly great, and hence, probably, his great deficiency in... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 sider
...years, Was with me when a boy. She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares, and delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy." lost two children when young, and, living to an advanced age, he lost even the daughter that was dearest... | |
 | George Brimley - 1858 - 376 sider
...later years W^as with me when a boy. She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love, and thought, and joy. But one blow carried off the mother and separated brother and sister — the latter went to reside... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 sider
...Was with me when a boy. She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares, and delicate fears i A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and ioy.'' Wordsworth shared the lot of humanity — he had his griefe— he lost two children wh«n young,... | |
 | 1859 - 890 sider
...was with him when a boy ;" — " She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares, and delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and joy." He drew hints, also, from foreign travel, and the observation of a different nature. The forests, the... | |
 | 1859 - 534 sider
...himself, ae he sang — " She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And gentle hopee, and delicate fears, Л heart the fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought and joy." We need not discuss the comparative powers of men and women now. In astronomy as in other sciences,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 sider
...years Was with me when a boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares, and delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy. m. TO A BUTTERFLY. "What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1861 - 402 sider
...know what the poet says, — " She gave them eyes, she gave them ears, And humble cares, and delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and jo;." Is it nothing to hear of such gifts? "Childhood," says a French author, " has natural graces... | |
 | 1864 - 546 sider
...heart to the gentler affections : " She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and joy." If there were no other records of her than those brief extracts from her journal during the Highland... | |
 | Book - 1864 - 396 sider
...years Was with me when a boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy. WORDSWORTH. THE WREN'S NEST. ^MONG the dwellings framed by birds In field or forest with nice care,... | |
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