 | 1820 - 696 pages
...quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy , We see into the life of things. If this Be but a vain belief, yet, oh ! how oft, In darkness,...stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have bong upon the beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to tbee, O sylvan Wye ! Thou... | |
 | 1821 - 420 pages
...made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. If this Be but a vain belief, yet, oh ! how oft, In darkness,...fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, i Have hung upon the beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee, c •. - . O... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - English essays - 1824 - 446 pages
...made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. If this Be but a vain belief, yet, oh ! how oft, In darkness,...the beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turn'd to thee, O sylvan Wye ! Thou wanderer through the woods, How often has my spirit turn'd to thee... | |
 | 1824 - 446 pages
...made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. If this Be but a vain belief, yet, oh ! how oft, In darkness,...the beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turn'd to thee, O sylvan Wye ! Thou wanderer through the woods, How often has my spirit turn'd to thee... | |
 | Periodicals - 1825 - 500 pages
...the poet thus replies to the cold scepticism that doubts the influence of this "• blessed gift" : " Yet oh! how oft In darkness, and amid the many shapes...stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have bung upon the beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit have I turned to thee, O sylvan Wye ! Thou wanderer... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. If this Be but a vain belief, yet, oh ! how oft, In darkness,...have I turned to thee, O sylvan Wye ! Thou wanderer thro' the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee ! And now, with gleams of half-extinguished,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. If this Be but a vain belief, yet, oh ! how oft, In darkness,...heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee, 0 sylvan Wye ! Thou wanderer thro' the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee ! And now, with... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - American poetry - 1827 - 112 pages
...will know That in the history of my lonely hours Some gentler passages were writ by them. TWILIGHT. -When the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever...the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.' WORDSWORTH. O TWILIGHT hour! who art so very cool And balmy in the summer eventide, With thy rich breathing... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...quiet by the power Of harmony, mid the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. — If this Be but a vain belief, yet, oh ! how oft. In darkness, and amid the many shape* Of joyless day-light, when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung... | |
 | 1833 - 742 pages
...much of the book by heart. For myself I assure you that when — to use his own beautiftd words — " When the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever...the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart." there is, certainly, no modern writer to whose pages I have turned with such assurance of "meditative... | |
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In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. If this Be but a vain belief, yet, oh ! how oft, In darkness, and amid the many shapes Of joyless day-light... 
