 For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity ; Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with...  The Warner Library - Page 15159edited by - 1917Full view - About this book
 | Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing often times The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating,...chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused,... | |
 | 1829 - 348 pages
...mourn nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompence. For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh, nor grating, though of ampler power To chasten and subdue.... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Short stories, American - 1830 - 354 pages
...arts and sciences; — all this is "high matter," and may be discussed hereafter. UNWRITTEN POETRY. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes, The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.... | |
 | Benjamin Bailey - English poetry - 1831 - 138 pages
...thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused.... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 348 pages
...thoughtless youth ; but hearing, oftentimes, The still, sad music of humanity ; Not harsh and grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; — a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused.... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 864 pages
...nor mourn, nor murmur; other gifts Have followed, for such loss I would believe Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the...humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. . . Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains... | |
 | William Henry Spicer - Sicily (Italy) - 1834 - 196 pages
...splrti; Chi MI le pinme, e chi su i dim sassi, E clii su 1'erbe, e chi iu faggi or mirti. ARIOSTO. I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The stilt, aad music of humanity; Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue."... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 532 pages
...head of Poems of the Imagination, is inexpressibly affecting. We can copy but a short paragraph. — I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour...chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused,... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...high disdain ; Against deceit and cloaked doubleness, What vaileth truth, or perfect steadfastness ? I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour...chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused,... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...mourn nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed, for such loss, 1 would believe. Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused,... | |
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