 tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. The birds around me hopped and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure: — But the least motion which they made It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch...  "Under Green Leaves.": A Book of Rural Poems - Page 14edited by - 1865 - 96 pagesFull view - About this book
 | August Gottlieb Meissner - 1784 - 630 pages
...with the invigorating well-spring of love ?" A STORY OF GERMAN LOVE. 133 From heaven if this belief be sent, If such be nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man. " Yet, how. happy the poets are," said she. " Their words call the deepest feelings into existence... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1798 - 240 pages
...Their thoughts I cannot measure, But the least motion which they made, It seem'da thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If I these thoughts may not prevent, If such be of my creed the plan, Have I not reason to lament What... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pages
...Their thoughts I cannot measure, But the least motion which they made, It seem'da thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If I these thoughts may not prevent, If such be of my creed the plan, Have I not reason to lament What... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pages
...Their thoughts I cannot measure, But the least motion which they made, It seem'da thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread' out their fan, To catch...breezy air ; And I must think, do all I can, That there wa* pleasure there. If I these thoughts may not prevent,. If such be of my creed the plan, Have I not... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...periwinkle trail'd its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. • 4 The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If I these thoughts may not .prevent, If such be of my creed the plan, Have I not reason to lament What... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...thoughts I cannot measure : — But the least motion which they made, It seem'da thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If I these thoughts may not prevent, If such be of my creed the plan, Have I not reason to lament What... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...thoughts I cannot measure : — But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan. To catch the...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If I these thoughts may not prevent, If such be of my creed the plan, Have I not reason to lament What... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1805 - 284 pages
...can, That there was pleasure there. If I these thoughts may not prevent, If sUch be of my creed the plan, Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man ? SIMON LEE, THE OLD HUNTSMAN, With an incident in which he was concerned. In the sweet shire of Cardigan,... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...thoughts I cannot measure : — But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If I these thoughts may not prevent, If such be of my creed the plan, Have I not reason to lament What... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...thoughts I cannot measure : — But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If I these thoughts may not prevent, If such be of my creed the plan, Have I not reason to lament What... | |
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