| Mrs. Barwell (Louisa Mary) - Children's stories - 1865 - 214 pages
...the poet must be right who said, "Through primrose-tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trail'd its wreaths ; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. The birds around me hopp'd and play'd— Their thoughts I cannot measure ; But the least motion which they made, It seem'da... | |
| William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 pages
...that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Mature link The human soul that through me ran ; And much...faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. T*v The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air ; 191 And I must think, do all... | |
| R. C. J. - English poetry - 1866 - 304 pages
...in a grove I sat reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that...man has made of man. Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths ; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air... | |
| Sidney Gilpin - Ballads, English - 1866 - 586 pages
...in a grove I sat reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that...man has made of man. Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths ; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air... | |
| Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that...man has made of man. Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trail'd its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air... | |
| Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that...Man has made of Man. Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths, And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air... | |
| Book - English literature - 1868 - 168 pages
...in a grove I sat reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that...man has made of man. Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trail'd its wreaths ; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air... | |
| Leigh Page - Flowers - 1868 - 296 pages
...plant, it is most abun dant in some parts, and, spreading rapidly, soon covers large plots of green. ' Through primrose tufts in that sweet bower, The periwinkle...faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes,' writes Wordsworth. Its name is derived from vincio, to bind, in consequence of its tough, trailing... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...neither know to spin nor care to toil, Yet, with confessed magnificence, deride WILD FLOWEES (continued). Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle...faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. — WORDSWORTH. God loveth all his creatures, Doth bless them hour by hour ; Then will he not of man... | |
| John Richard Vernon - 1869 - 384 pages
...Wordsworth ; on a sweet Spring day, amid harmonies of motion, sound, sight, stillness ; straightway — "To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran And much it grieved my soul to think What man has made of man." Tennyson, under the new lime-leaves, and looking down on the... | |
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