There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem 'Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day,... Sketches of Representative Women of New England - Page 394edited by - 1904 - 499 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. ODE. THEUE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did...seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it has been of yore ; — , Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night... | |
| Samuel Holworthy - Religious poetry, English - 1821 - 170 pages
...RECOLLECTIONS, IN SINCERE FRIENDSHIP, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did...seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. WOUIISWOUTH'S Miscellaneous Poems* —— That time is past, And all its aching... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...Bound each to each by natural piety. 1. See Vol. I. page 3. THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did...seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or... | |
| Henry Stebbing - Religious poetry, English - 1832 - 858 pages
...Your praises shall he heard in Heaven !* ODE. [WORDSWORTH.] THERE was a time when mendow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did...seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it has heen of yore ; Turn wheresoe'or I may, By night or day,... | |
| 1839 - 876 pages
...for another month. Washington, January, 1339. I. ro YOUTH. ' There was a time when meadow, prove and stream, The earth, and every common sight To me did...seem Apparelled in celestial light,— The glory and Ihe freshness of a dream ! It la not now aa It hath been of yore, — The things, which I -have seen,... | |
| Plantagenet - 1835 - 950 pages
...time certainlv had some inclination for studv. CHAPTER IV. There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The Earth, and every common sight, To me did...seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. OUT birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ; The soul that rises with us, our... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1835 - 610 pages
...Characteristics of Goethe. Page 13. The field, the grove, the air was haunted, And all that age has disenchanted. To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it has been of yore ; — Turn wheresoc'er I may, By night or... | |
| Elizabeth Palmer Peabody - Education - 1836 - 264 pages
...am about to read. He then began and read the first stanza. There was a time when meadow, grove and stream, The earth and every common sight To me did...seem Apparelled in celestial light, The Glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it has been of yore, Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day... | |
| Thomas Browne Browne - Absentee landlordism - 1838 - 274 pages
...most faultless stanza in Wordsworth's ode is the first :— " There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream. The earth, and every common sight, To me did...seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day,... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...wish my days to he Bound each to each hy natural piety." 'I'ni HI. was a time when meadow, grove, nnd stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did...seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night... | |
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