 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
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 618 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...— Great God ! I 'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, — • So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Haveglimpsesthat would make me loss... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - Christianity - 1877 - 270 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...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... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1878 - 246 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,...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... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - Poetry - 1878 - 358 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 glimpses... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - 1878 - 378 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,...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... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...that bares her bosom to the moon ; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are upgathcred s ago he was in the very zenith of a sultry and unwholesome popularity ; he blazed as a sun in the fi ! I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have... | |
 | Readers - 1878 - 446 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1878 - 846 pages
...moon ; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers j For this, for everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us not. — Great God ! IM rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1878 - 278 pages
...boon t 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 j It moves us not. Great God 1 I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing... | |
 | Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 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,...— 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... | |
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