 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - 1844
...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
...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 - 619 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... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1849 - 235 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 - 528 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
...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
...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
...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 - 546 halaman
...in our decay: And yet the wwer mind Mourns len for what age Ukes away Than what it leaveĞ 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... | |
 | 1855
...assertion is more open to question, there is a kind of harmony in the life of the animal creation. * With nature never do they wage A foolish strife ;...happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.' 2 But it is far otherwise with fallen man. His nature, though in no part rendered substantively evil,... | |
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The blackbird in the summer trees, The lark upon the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. "With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife : they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free... 
