 When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth, though old, still clad in green, The stones and trees insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; If winter come, and greenness then do fade, A spring returns, and they...  A History of Literature in America - Página 39de Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - 1904 - 443 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Caroline May - 1869 - 598 páginas
...vain delight, So unawares comes on perpetual night, And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight. When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then...greenness then do fade, A Spring returns, and they more youthfull made ; But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he 'a laid. By birth more noble than... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 558 páginas
...And in their kind resound their Maker's praise: Whilst I, as mute, can warble forth no higher lays. When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then...made; But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he 's laid. By birth more noble than those creatures all, Yet seems by nature and by custom curs'd,... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1897 - 448 páginas
...And in their kind, resound their Maker's praise, Whilst I, as mute, can warble forth no higher lays. "When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And...grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid." I might go on thus from her best poem, of " Contemplations," but should hardly come to better things,... | |
 | Anne Bradstreet - 1897 - 458 páginas
...delight; So unawares comes on perpetual night, V',tH And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight. When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then...front are seen; If winter come, and greenness then doth fade, A spring returns, and they 're more youthful made. But man grows old, lies down, remains... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 páginas
...And in their kind resound their Maker's praise: Whilst I, as mute, can warble forth no higher lays. "When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And...; But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he 's laid. " By birth more noble than those creatures all, Yet seems by nature and by custom curs'd,... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 594 páginas
...And in their kind resound their Maker's praise: Whilst I, as mute, can warble forth no higher lays. "When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And...; But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he 's laid. " By birth more noble than those creatures all, Yet seems by nature and by custom curs'd,... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1901 - 610 páginas
...And in their kind resound their Maker's praise: Whilst I, as mute, can warble forth no higher lays. "When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And...grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid. " By birth more noble than those creatures all, Yet seems by nature and by custom curs'd, No sooner... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells - 1901 - 316 páginas
...in their kind resound their Maker's praise : Whilst I, as mute, can warble forth no higher lays. ' When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then...; But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he "s laid. By birth more noble than those creatures all, Yet seems by nature and by custom curs' d,... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 466 páginas
...master, and require no apology. This is true, for instance, of her poem upon " The Seasons" : — " When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then...; But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he '& laid. " Shall I then praise the heavens, the trees, the earth, Because their beauty and their... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 378 páginas
...master, and require no apology. This is true, for instance, of her poem upon " The Seasons " : — " When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then...; But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he 's laid. " Shall I then praise the heavens, the trees, the earth, Because their beauty and their... | |
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