 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 Seiten
...thus tracing their connection together, since it is in reference to her he says "She gave me eyet, the gave me ears, And humble cares and delicate fears...fountain of sweet tears. And love and thought and joy." His nature was exquisite, and most sensitive in its tenderness, but it possessed many elements of a... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1856 - 450 Seiten
...later years ;" and he thus described her influence on his character :— " She gave me eyes, she g^ve me ears, And humble cares, and delicate fears, A heart,...fountain of sweet tears, And love and thought and joy." Miss Wordsworth continued to live with the poet after his marriage, which took place in 1802 ; first... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1857 - 492 Seiten
...; but that he had been led to more delicate and sensitive thoughts by his sister's influence — " She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares,...fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and joy." Naturally the rigidity of his mind was clearly great, and hence, probably, his great deficiency in... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 Seiten
...her, being then A little Prattler among men. The Blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares,...fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy. 1801. FORESIGHT.! (OR, THE CHARGE OP A CHILD TO HIS YOUNGER COMPANION.) THAT is work of waste and rain... | |
 | 1857 - 496 Seiten
...; but that he had been led to more delicate and sensitive thoughts by his sister's influence — " She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares,...fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and joy." Naturally the rigidity of his mind was clearly great, and hence, probably, his great deficiency in... | |
 | George Brimley - 1858 - 376 Seiten
...describes in his poem to the ' Sparrow's Nest': — The blessing of my later years W^as with me when a boy. She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares,...of sweet tears; And love, and thought, and joy. But one blow carried off the mother and separated brother and sister — the latter went to reside with... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 Seiten
...her, being then A little prattler among men. The blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares,...fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy. TO A BUTTERFLY. I'VE watch'd you now a full half-hour Seli-poised upon that yellow flower ; And, little... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 Seiten
...blessing : — " A little prattler among: men, The blessing of my later years, Was with me when a boy. She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares, and delicate fears i A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and ioy.'' Wordsworth shared the lot... | |
 | 1859 - 890 Seiten
...sister. He felt the debt he owed her. " This blessing of his later years was with him when a boy ;" — " She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares,...fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and joy." He drew hints, also, from foreign travel, and the observation of a different nature. The forests, the... | |
 | 1859 - 534 Seiten
...himself, ae he sang — " She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And gentle hopee, and delicate fears, Л heart the fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought and joy." We need not discuss the comparative powers of men and women now. In astronomy as in other sciences,... | |
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The Blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares, and delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy. 
