 Brightened the tresses that old Poets praise; Where Petrarch's patient love, and artful lays, And Ariosto's song of many themes, Moved the soft air. But I, a lazy brook, As close pent up within my native dell, Have crept along from nook to shady nook,...  Poems - Page 3by Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 157 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1902 - 440 pages
...In foreign lands, where silvery Padus gleams To that delicious sky, whose glowing beams Brightened the tresses that old Poets praise ; Where Petrarch's...lazy brook, As close pent up within my native dell, 1 lave crept along from nook to shady nook, Where flow'rets blow, and whispering Naiads dwell. Yet... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 682 pages
...measure ; And now the streams may sing for others' pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity. III.— TO THE SAME. WE parted on the mountains, as...wide, O'er rough and smooth to travel side by side. IV.— LONG TIME A CHILD. LONG time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1865 - 822 pages
...In foreign lands, where silvery Padus gleams To that delicious sky, whose glowing beams Brightened F ~k] \ [Έ ơ 4 xG z¡eaH o ^]cH ` ... o1 a mW p y bԶ Yȑ̏ d ͂0 iQ } *} ,1 x^ A$ ׇ <Q ffleet, that parted were so wide, O'er rough and smooth to travel side by side." The contrast of instructive... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1908 - 296 pages
...Petrarch's patient love, and artful lays, And Ariosto's song of many themes, 1 Paradise Lost, vii. 24. Moved the soft air. But I, a lazy brook, As close...Naiads dwell. Yet now we meet that parted were so wide, For1 rough and smooth to travel side by side.' ' Once I was young, and fancy was my all, My love, my... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1908 - 294 pages
...mountains, as two streams From one clear spring pursue their several ways ; And thy fleet course has been through many a maze In foreign lands, where silvery...and artful lays. And Ariosto's song of many themes, 1 Paradise Lost, vii. 24. Moved the soft air. But I, a lazy brook, As close pent up within my native... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, Thomas H. Dickinson - English essays - 1908 - 508 pages
...I, a lazy brook, As close pent up within my native dell, Have crept along from nook to shady nook, 5 Where flow'rets blow, and whispering Naiads dwell....wide, O'er rough and smooth to travel side by side." The contrast of instructive and enviable locomotion with refining but instructive meditation is not... | |
 | Thomas Herbert Dickinson, Frederick William Roe - English essays - 1908 - 508 pages
...In foreign lands, where silvery Padus gleams To that delicious sky, whose glowing beams Brightened the tresses that old Poets praise; Where Petrarch's patient love and artful lays, 30 And Ariosto's song of many themes, Moved the soft air. But I, a lazy brook, As close pent up within... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1915 - 356 pages
...In foreign lands, where silvery Padus gleams To that delicious sky, whose glowing beams Brightened the tresses that old Poets praise ; Where Petrarch's...wide, O'er rough and smooth to travel side by side." The contrast of instructive and enviable locomotion with refining but instructive meditation is not... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - Criticism - 1924 - 636 pages
...In foreign lands, where silvery Padus gleams To that delicious sky, whose glowing beams Brightened the tresses that old Poets praise ; Where Petrarch's...many themes, Moved the soft air. But I, a lazy brook, AH close pent up within my native dell, Have crept along from nook to shady nook, Where flowrets blow,... | |
 | 1901 - 394 pages
...sacrificed to fluency. There is a true glimpse of himself in his lines — "... But I, a lazy broolc, As close pent up within my native dell, Have crept...Where flowrets blow, and whispering Naiads dwell." Edward Dowden must have had this passage in mind when he wrote "As a mountain rivulet to a mountain... | |
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