 I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn ; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea ; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.  Colossi: A Lyric Anthology. I - Page 189edited by - 1906 - 202 pagesFull view - About this book
 | T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874 - 492 pages
...that bares her bosom to the moon ; The winds that will be howling at all hours And are up-gather'd now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us not. Great God ! I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1874 - 396 pages
...boon ! The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon ; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are upgathered now like sleeping flowers ; For this —...everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us not. And in a letter he says the same thing — " It is an awful truth, that there neither is, nor can be,... | |
 | 1875 - 596 pages
...sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are upguthered now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for everything,...we are out of tune ; It moves us not. — Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea. Have... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - Literature - 1875 - 370 pages
...that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up -gathered now like sleeping flowers ; For this, for everything,...we are out of tune ; It moves us not. — Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1875 - 356 pages
...Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours And are up-gather'd now like sleeping flowers, For this, for everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us not. — Great Gpd ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, — So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...boon ! This sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are s creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...boon ! This sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, For this, for...not. Great God ! I 'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn,... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1876 - 272 pages
...! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon ; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers ; For this,...everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us not. Great God ! I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 574 pages
...boon ! This sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for...everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. Great God ! I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...boon ! This sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers., For this, for everything, we are out of tune ; Jt moves us not. — Great God ! I 'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, — So might... | |
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