 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...sweet To grant, or be received, while that poor bird — O come and hear him ! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him, though a lowly creature, One of God's simple children that yet know uot The universal Parent, how he sings As if he wished the firmament of neaven Should listen, and give... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1864 - 358 pages
...sweet To grant, or be received, while that poor bird* — O come and hear him ! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him, though a lowly creature....back to him the voice Of his triumphant constancy anil love ; The proclamation that he makes, how far His darkness doth transcend our fickle light!'... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1867 - 502 pages
...sweet To grant, or be received ; while that poor bird — 0, come and hear him I Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him; — though a lowly creature,...that yet know not The Universal Parent, how he sings I As if he wished the firmament of heaven Should listen, and give back to him the voice Of his triumphant... | |
 | Edward Thring - 1868 - 392 pages
...praise, Methinks, would better suit another place. p. 235. Second Clause wanting, and Dependent Sentence. How he sings As if he wished the firmament of heaven...him the voice Of his triumphant constancy and love! p. 236. No. 3. Though such service be, with us, removed From sense of degradation, not the less The... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 pages
...grant, or be received; while that poor bird— ' O cuin> and hear him ! Thou who hast to me ' Ikcn faithless, hear him, though a lowly creature, ' One...yet know not ' The universal Parent, how he sings • A.« if he wished the firmament of heaven • Should listen, and give back to him the voice •... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1871 - 630 pages
...faithless, hear him, though a lowly creature. One of Hod's simple children that yet know not The univcrs.il Parent, how he sings As if he wished the firmament...his triumphant constancy and love ; The proclamation tli.it he make-;, how fir His darkness dotli transcend our fickle light !' Such was the tender passage,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1871 - 622 pages
...sweet To grant, or be received, while that poor bird — O come and hear him ! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him, though a lowly creature,...Parent, how he sings. As if he wished the firmament ofTieaven Should listen, and give back to him the voice Of his triumphant constancy and love ; The... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...and hear him ! Thou wlm hast to me Been faithless, hear him, though a lowly erea iu re, One of Clod's simple children that yet know not The universal Parent,...wished the firmament of heaven Should listen, and give hack to him the voice .Of his triumphant constancy and love ; The proclamation that he makes, how far... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 418 pages
...sweet To grant, or be received ; while that poor bird — 0, come and hear him ! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him ; — though a lowly creature,...wished the firmament of heaven Should listen, and give hack to him the voice Of his trinmphant constancy and love. The proclamation that he makes, how far... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1872 - 500 pages
...sweet To grant, or be received ; while that poor bird — 0, come and hear him I Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him; — though a lowly creature,...that yet know not The Universal Parent, how he sings I As if he wished the firmament of heaven Should listen, and give back to him the voice Of his triumphant... | |
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Him who is a righteous Judge, — Why do not these prevail for human life, To keep two hearts together, that began Their springtime with one love, and that have need Of mutual pity and forgiveness sweet To grant, or be received; while that poor bird —... 
