 The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Sida 2601819Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 442 sidor
...Wordsworth's habit of dwelling as much upon the rest of the universe as upon man, has given his poetry an air of greater joyfulness and sunshine than it could...carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. 1 One who had died of a broken heart. With nature do they never wage A foolish strife ; they see A... | |
 | 1857 - 496 sidor
...for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful... | |
 | Alfred J. Pairpoint - 1857 - 360 sidor
...therefore may say, with the poet, of their birds, that— The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet, "when they will. The birds of America have a decidedly handsomer plumage than those of Great Britain, but are not such... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 sidor
...for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they wilL With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 sidor
...heart is idly stirr'd, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. " The blackbird in the summer trees, The lark upon the hill, Let loose...carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. " With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife : they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful... | |
 | Virginia De Forrest - 1860 - 368 sidor
...for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when- they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 sidor
...yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. The blackbird in the summer trees, The lark upon the hill, Let loose...carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife : they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 sidor
...what Age takes away, Than what it leaves behind. ' The blackbird amid leafy trees— The lark above the hill Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. ' With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 sidor
...for what age takes away, Thau what it leaves behind. " The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. " With nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful... | |
 | 1861 - 144 sidor
...for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. " The blackbird amid leafy trees, The lark above the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will. « With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age " But... | |
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