 That, wisely doating, ask'd not why it doated, And ours the unknown joy, which knowing kills. But now I find, how dear thou wert to me; That man is more than half of nature's treasure. Of that fair Beauty which no eye can see, Of that sweet music which...  Poems: Vol. I. - Page 1by Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 157 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Maurice Maeterlinck - Fate and fatalism - 1898 - 384 pages
...Maleine there was the same curious, wandering sense of, and search for, a vague and mystic beauty : " That fair beauty which no eye can see, Of that sweet music which no ear can measure." In a little poem of his, Et s'il revenait, the last words of a dying girl, forsaken by her lover, who... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...wills : One soul was ours, one mind, one heart devoted, That, wisely doting, ask'd not why it doted, And ours the unknown joy, which knowing kills. But...others' pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity. THOMAS HOOD 647. Autumn 1798-1845 T SAW old Autumn in the misty morn .*. Stand shadowless like Silence,... | |
 | James Benjamin Kenyon - Authors, English - 1901 - 266 pages
...impulses of love so destructive of every gracious emotion. The poet well knew the value of a human soul: That man is more than half of nature's treasure, Of...see, Of that sweet music which no ear can measure. About two years before the death of Keats the one great event of his life began — his love affair.... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1902 - 440 pages
...is to be found in the writings of meaner men. Take sonnets of Hartley Coleridge, for example : — I. " TO A FRIEND. " When we were idlers with the loitering...others' pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity." 11. "TO THE SAME. " In the great city we are met again, Where many souls there are that breathe and... | |
 | Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 666 pages
...wills : One soul was ours, one mind, one heart devoted, That, wisely doating, ask'd not why it floated, And ours the unknown joy, which knowing kills. But...others' pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity. SONG FROM THE FRAGMENT OF "TORRISMOND" OF BEDDOES. How many times do I love thee, dear? Tell me how... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1903 - 692 pages
...wills : One soul was ours, one mind, one heart devoted, That, wisely doating, ask'd not why it floated, And ours the unknown joy, which knowing kills. But...others' pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity. SONG FROM THE FRAGMENT OF "TORRISMOND" OF BEDDOES. How many times do I love thee, dear ? Tell me how... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1905 - 540 pages
...mind, one heart devoted, That, wisely doating, ask'd not why it doated ; And ours the unknown joy, that knowing kills. But now I find how dear thou wert to...that fair beauty which no eye can see, — Of that still music which no ear can measure ; But now the streams may sing for others' pleasure, The hills... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1904 - 324 pages
...wills : One soul was ours, one mind, one heart devoted, That, wisely doating, ask'd not why it floated, And ours the unknown joy, which knowing kills. But...others' pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity. SONG FROM THE FRAGMENT OF " TORRISMOND " OF BEDDOES. How many times do I love thee, dear? Tell me how... | |
 | George Gunton - Economics - 1904 - 672 pages
...ask'd not why it doted, And ours the unknown joy, which knowing kills. But now I find how dear thou art to me ; That man is more than half of nature's treasure,...others' pleasure. The hills sleep on in their eternity. Wordsworth's 'Prelude' is a confession of his love for nature, and his education through this love,... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 682 pages
...years, Compose this book. If good therein there be, That good, my sire, I dedicate to thee. II.-TO A FRIEND. WHEN we were idlers with the loitering rills,...others' pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity. III.— TO THE SAME. WE parted on the mountains, as two streams From one clear spring pursue their... | |
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