 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 sivua
...Prophet! Seer blest! 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...creed Of childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: —Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise;... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 sivua
...her 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...creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast : Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 sivua
...lines, we will add another passage, which can be separated with the least injury from the rest : — 0 joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live,...creed Of childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast :— Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise... | |
 | David Gervais - 1993 - 304 sivua
...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...That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive ! The cumulative impact of Wordsworth's change of key is lost in so short an extract but the scope of the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 sivua
...earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life! DC 130 O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live,...creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: 140 Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise;... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot - 1994 - 340 sivua
...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,...That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! The cumulative impact of this change of key is lost in a short extract, but its scope is still breathtaking.... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 sivua
...lie upon thee with a weight. Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life! Oh joy! that in our embers 130 Is something that doth live. That nature yet remembers...creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest. With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: — Not for these I raise 140 The song of thanks and... | |
 | Peter Hughes, Robert Rehder - 1996 - 258 sivua
...short lines that draw attention to themselves, ushering in a newly personal quality to the poetry: Oh joy that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! (II. 132-5) Moving on into this great ninth stanza of the Ode, we hear (more solemnly) of "perpetual... | |
 | Jerome J. McGann - 1998 - 238 sivua
...the 'Immortality Ode' to its redemptive phase by making a reprise of this passage from the Elegy: Oh Joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! ('Intimations Ode', i32-5) Ashes, embers, dust: Gray's poetical flight is earthward, to brute matter... | |
 | Alister E. McGrath - 2002 - 146 sivua
...Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. . . O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! . . . Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal... | |
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The 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 creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast:... 
