 twas only in my dreams. Dread Power ! whom peace and calmness serve No less than Nature's threatening voice, If aught unworthy be my choice, From THEE if I would swerve, Oh, let thy grace remind me of the light Full early lost, and fruitlessly deplored...  Songs of the Cross and crown - Page 143by Songs - 1874Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 372 pages
...serve No less than Nature's threatening voice, If aught unworthy be my choice, From THEE if I would swerve, Oh, let thy grace remind me of the light,...splendour fades, And night approaches with her shades. Note. — The multiplication of mouutain-ridges, described, at the commencement of the third stanza... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...serve No less than Nature's threatening voice, If aught unworthy be my choice, From THEE if I would swerve, Oh, let thy grace remind me of the light Full...splendour fades ; And night approaches with her shades. Note. — The multiplication of mountain-ridges, described, at the commencement of the third stanza... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...serve No less than Nature's threatening voice, If aught unworthy be my choice, From Thee if I would swerve, Oh, let thy grace remind me of the light,...yet confined to earth, Rejoices in a second birth ; — 'T is past, the visionary splendour fades, TO THE DAISY. • IN youth from rock to rock I went,... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - English drama - 1840 - 346 pages
...practicable way Ï " His conclusion isina different spirit to that of Faust : — " From thee if ever I would swerve. Oh let thy grace remind me of the light Full early lost and fruitlessly deplored. Which .it this moment in my waking sight Appears to shine by miracle restored ! My soul though yet confined... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...serve No less than Nature's threatening voice, If aught unworthy be my choice, From THEE if I would swerve ; Oh, let thy grace remind me of the light...yet confined to earth, Rejoices in a second birth ! — 'T!s past, the visionary splendour fades ; And night approaches with her shades. I818. Sole,—... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...serve No less than Nature's threatening voice, If aught unworthy be my choice, From TUEE if I would swerve; Oh, let thy grace remind me of the light Full...waking sight Appears to shine, by miracle restored ; My son!, though yet confined to earth, Rejoices in a second birth ! — "Tie past, the visionary splendour... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 252 pages
...practicable way!" His conclusion is in a different spirit to that of Faust :— " From thee if ever I would swerve, Oh let thy grace remind me of the light Full...lost and fruitlessly deplored, Which at this moment in my waking sight Appears to shine by miracle restored ! My soul though yet confined to earth, Rejoices... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...serve No less than Nature's tlireatening voice, If aught unworthy be my choice, From THEE if I would swerve; Oh, let thy grace remind me of the light Full...restored ; My soul, though yet confined to earth, Itejoiees iu a second birth ! — "fis past, the visionary splendour fades ; And night approaches with... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...less than nature's threatening voice, If aught unworthy be my choice, From TIIEK if I would swerve; O, ould not rescue, perished in her sight ! IV. THE most TO THE CLOUDS. ARMY of Clouds! ye winged Host in troops Ascending from behind the motionless brow Of... | |
 | Edmund Hamilton Sears - Atonement - 1853 - 266 pages
...less than nature's threatening voice, If aught unworthy be my choice, From thee if I would swerve, O, let thy grace remind me of the light, Full early lost,...waking sight Appears to shine, by miracle restored ! " * * See Wordsworth's incomparable " Evening Ode." CHAPTER V. LIGHT IN DARKNESS. " naunted for ever... | |
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