 | Childhood - 1841 - 384 pages
...earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost and deep almost as life. IX. O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live,...thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest,— Delight and liberty, the simple... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live....thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest ; Delight and liberty, the simple... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1842 - 440 pages
...earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! Ojoy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That...thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest; Delight and liberty, the simple... | |
 | Fashion - 1842 - 414 pages
...118 119 A WESTERN "CHARACTER." BY MRS. CLAVERS, AUTHOR OF " A NEW HOME," " FOREST LIFE," ETC. " О ! joy that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive ! " WOUDSWOBTH. IN wandering- through the woods, where solitude seems to hold undivided reign, so that... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1842 - 412 pages
...feeling—such a piece of inspired philosophy—we do not believe exists elsewhere in human language:— " O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions : not indeed For that which is... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...lines, we will add another passage, which can be separated with the least injury from the rest : — O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live,...thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest ; Delight and liberty, the simple... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1844 - 452 pages
...odes, in which they are again very truly and successfully delineated :— O Joy ! that in our embers 1s something that doth live : That nature yet remembers,...thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction ; not, indeed, For that which is most worthy to be blest, .Delight and liberty : the simple... | |
 | Samuel Sidwell Randall - Education - 1844 - 264 pages
...diffuses over our whole being that joy, and peace, and hope, which take fast hold of immortality. " O ! joy, that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive ! " * * * "— those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...earthly freight And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live,...thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest ; Delight and liberty, the simple... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep ahuost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live,...thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedietion : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest ; Delight and liberty, the simple... | |
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O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! 
