 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...throng, Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye that through your hearts to day Feel the gladness of the May ! What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...156 Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye that through your hearts to day Feel the gladness of the May ! What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...throng, Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye that through your hearts to-day Feel the gladness of the May! What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...throng, Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye that through your hearts to-day Feel the gladness of the May 1 What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 526 pages
...cannot weave over again the airy, unsubstantial drauu, which reason and experience have dispelled, " What though the radiance, which was once so bright, Be now for ever taken from our sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of glory in the grass, of splendour in... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...recollection comes rushing by with thoughts of long-past years, and rings in my ears with never-dying sound. " What though the radiance which was once so bright, Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of glory in the grass, of splendour in... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 464 pages
...for a short time in 1629. * There be delights, there be recreations and jolly pastimes, that u ill fetch the day about from sun to sun, and rock the tedious year as in a delightfull dream.] After the industry with wliich political enmity has widely propagated that MILTON... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Authors and publishers - 1821 - 420 pages
...language of a fine poet (who is himself among my earliest and not least painful recollections) — " What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever vanish'd from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of glory in the grass, of splendour... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...have this in his thoughts, when he said afterwards in his Areopagitica — there be delights, there be recreations and jolly pastimes that will fetch...and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream." Vol. ip 154, 155. edit. 1738. 1. Hence loathed Melancholy, &c] The beginning of this poem is somewhat... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...thoughts, when he said afterwards in his Areopagitica — ' there be delights, there be re' creations and jolly pastimes ' that will fetch the day about...rock the ' tedious year as in a delightful ' dream." Vol. ip 154, 155. edit. 1738. is somewhat like the beginning of Kul. Decembrgi Saturnales of Statius,... | |
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Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring... 
