 This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. — Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed...  Mind - Page 4031903Full view - About this book
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840
...powers ^ Little we see in Nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon fThis sea, that bares her bosom to the moon ; The winds, that will be howling at all hours, And are upgather'd now like sleeping flowers :: For this, for everything, we are out of tune : It moves us... | |
 | A Montagu Woodford - 1841
...soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This Sea that...like sleeping flowers ; For this, for everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us not.—Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844
...soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers : I/ittle we see in nature that is ours ; We have lea. Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn...upon Westminster Bridge, September :l, 1R03. Earth we are out of tune ; It moves us not. Great God ! I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844
...soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers : Little we íåå in nature that is ours ; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This sea that...like sleeping flowers ; For this, for everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us not. Great God ! I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn... | |
 | English poetry - 1844
...soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This Sea, that...up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for every thing, we are out of tune; It moves us not. — Great God! I 'd rather be A Pagan, suckled in... | |
 | 1871
...soon Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little is left in nature that is ours: We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon. This sea that...bosom to the moon — The winds that will be howling nt all hours, And now upgivthered lie like sleeping flowers — For this, for everything, we are out... | |
 | 1882
...worldlinesss of to-day" had rendered insensitive to the " sea that bares her bosom to the moon " and the Winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers ; and it is true that in the poetry of nature such overstrained sentiments frequently occur. Yet, were... | |
 | 1872
...cannot be an agreeable thought. From Saint Pauls. OFF THE SKKLLIGS. Ẩ JUAN ISOBLOW. CHAPTER VIII. " This sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be bowling at all hour«, And are upgather'd now like sleeping flowers — For this, for everything, we... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 495 pages
...soon, Getting and spending we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours : We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This sea that...like sleeping flowers ; For this, for everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us not.—Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845
...soon, Getting and spending we lay waste our powers ; Little we Bee in Nature that is ours : We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon ! This sea that...like sleeping flowers ; For this, for everything, we are out of tune ; It moves us not.— Great God ! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn,... | |
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