| Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1844 - 556 halaman
...results to which the various abuses of our powers reduce too many of our own species. " The black-birds in the summer trees The lark upon the hill Let loose...they please, Are quiet when they will. With nature do they never wage A useless strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.... | |
| 1892 - 890 halaman
...with right and with wrong," he sang, it has always seemed to us, as the blackbird and the lark, who Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. Certainly we never get from his poetry the idea, the image of nature as we get it from Shakespeare... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 halaman
...for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please,...youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free : But we arc pressed by heavy laws ; And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad... | |
| Sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 322 halaman
...for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The blackbird in the summer trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With nature never do tJiey wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free : But... | |
| Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1849 - 256 halaman
...it is due to Bossuet, whom Fordyce copied. JULY 30th. — Mr. Wordsworth sings in musical verse — The blackbird in the summer trees, The lark upon the hill, Let loose their carol when they please, Are quiet when they will. With nature never do they wage A foolish strife ;... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 halaman
...our decay ; And yet, the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away, Than what it leaves behind. The Blackbird in the summer trees, The Lark upon the...old age Is beautiful and free. But we are pressed with heavy laws, And often glad no more ; We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore.... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 450 halaman
...the standard of this virtue ; for, as poets say, — " The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please,...youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free." But we must not pursue further these similitudes between nature and the supernatural virtues of Catholicism.... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 764 halaman
...our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The Blackbird in the summer trees, The Lark upon the...Is beautiful and free ! But we are pressed by heavy law* ; And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore. If there... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 760 halaman
...our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Thau what it leaves behind. The Blackbird in the summer trees. The Lark upon the...strife; they see A happy youth, and their old age la beautiful and free 1 But we are pressed by heavy laws; And often, glad no more, We wear a face of... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 halaman
...in our decay: And yet the wwer mind Mourns len for what age Ukes away Than what it leave« behind. The Blackbird in the summer trees. The lark upon the hill, Let looee their carols when they please; Are quiet when they will. With nature never do Ütey wage A foolieh... | |
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