 If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills! — No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.  Recreation - Page 4251895Full view - About this book
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...Where, answering to the sudden shot, thin smoke Through thick-leaved branches from the dingle broke. If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows that thou wouldst forget, — If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep Thy heart from fainting, and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods... | |
 | Elizabeth Margaret Chandler - Antislavery movements - 1845 - 320 pages
...enjoyment, that mingles silently with the darker thoughts of the heart, and removes their bitterness. " If thou art worn and hard beset, With sorrows that thou wouldst forget — If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep The heart from fainting, and the soul from sleep, Go to the woods... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1846 - 428 pages
...Where, answering to the sudden shot, thin smoke Through thick-leaved branches from the dingle broke. If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows that thou wouldst forget — If tliou wouldst read a lesson that will keep Thy heart from fainting, and thy soul from sleep — •... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1847 - 456 pages
...Where, answering to the sudden shot, thin smoke Through thick-leaved branches from the dingle broke. If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows that thou wouldst forget — If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep Thy heart from fainting, and thy soul from sleep — Go to the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 128 pages
..."WTiere, answering to the sudden shot, thin smoke, Through thick-leaved branches from the dingle broke. If thou art worn and hard beset "With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods... | |
 | American poetry - 1848 - 276 pages
...Where, answering to the sudden shot, thin smoke Through thick-leaved branches from the dingle broke. If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows that thou wouldst forget,— If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1872 - 676 pages
...verses are slightly misquoted from the little poem by Longfellow, entitled tiunrise on the Hills. " If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1865 - 1220 pages
...always, Evelyn." I think I had in my mind, half unconsciously to myself, those wellknown lines — " If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that thou would'st forget, • If thou would'st read a lesson that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods... | |
 | American poetry - 1850 - 264 pages
...Where, answering to the sudden shot, thin smoke 'Through thick-leaved branches from the. dingle broke. If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows that thou wouldst forget, — If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...Where, answering to the sudden shot, thin smoke, Through thick-leaved branches, from the dingle broke. If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods... | |
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