 In youth we love the darksome lawn Brushed by the owlet's wing; Then, Twilight is preferred to Dawn, And Autumn to the Spring. Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.  Kingsconnell, a Tale - Halaman 64oleh Mrs. Gordon - 1850Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 halaman
...pair that slid along the plains Of heaven, when Venus held the reins ! In youth we love the darksome lawn Brushed by the owlet's wing ; Then, Twilight...Dawn, And Autumn to the Spring. Sad fancies do we then affeet, In luxury of disrespeet To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. Lyeoris (if such... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1849 - 298 halaman
...because they invited to repose the exuberant gayety of my own spirit : 21 "In youth, we love the darksome lawn Brushed by the owlet's wing; Then twilight is...luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness." But now, alas, I have no joyousness to spare; and I would fain borrow from... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 halaman
...specks of mountain snow, White as the pair that slid along the plains In youth we love the darksome lawn Brushed by the owlet's wing ; Then, Twilight...luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. Lycoris (if such name bent Thee, thee my life's celestial sign !) When Nature... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 halaman
...the plains Of Heaven, when Venus held the reins ! In youth we love the darksome lawn Brushed by tho owlet's wing; Then, Twilight is preferred to Dawn,...luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. Lycoris (if such name befit Thee, thee niy life's celestial sign!) When Nature... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1852 - 378 halaman
...touched on the quick by Wordsworth with such an exquisite probe — " In youth we love the darksome lawn, Brushed by the owlet's wing ; Then, twilight...luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness." In Delta, rather, it was that true manhood, so full of reverential trembling... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1854 - 452 halaman
...of Wordsworth, — " In youth we love the darkling lawn, Brushed by the owlet's wing ; Then evening is preferred to dawn, And autumn to the spring. Sad...luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness." The Chinese, from the remotest antiquity, have adorned and decorated their... | |
 | 1854 - 632 halaman
...described this inclination of youth to the mournful muse, Melpomene: — " In youth we love the darksome lawn, Brushed by the owlet's wing; Then twilight is preferred to dawn, And autumn to the spring. There is a well in the heart of man, Ami its waters are eweet and hard to win, The walls around it... | |
 | 1866 - 808 halaman
...disparagingly of republics, and to sigh for the dispositions and pomps of royalty. • * " Sad fancies did we then affect In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness." All such nonsense, if it had not already yielded to riper reason, would ere... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1860 - 404 halaman
...quick by Wordsworth with such an exquisite probe — " In youth we love the darksome lawn, Brushed hy the owlet's wing ; Then, twilight is preferred to...luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness." vOL. I. D In Delta, rather, it was that true manhood, so full of reverential... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 316 halaman
...pair that slid along the plains Of heaven, when Venus held the reins ! In youth we love the darksome lawn Brushed by the owlet's wing; Then, Twilight is...luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. Lycoris (if such name befit Thee, thee my life's celestial sign !) When Nature... | |
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