 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...short a voyage brings The Wanderers back to their delight ! Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee. Perhaps some dungeon hears thee groan, Maim'd, mangled by inhuman men; Or thou upon a Desart thrown... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...short a voyage brings The Wanderers back to their delight ! Chains tie us down by land and sea ; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee. Perhaps some dungeon hears thee groan, Maimed, mangled by inhuman men ; . Or thou upon a Desart thrown... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...short a voyage brings The Wanderers back to their delight ! Chains tie us down by land and sea ; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort tltee. Perhaps some dungeon hears thee groan, Maimed, mangled by inhuman men ; Or thou upon a Desart... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 378 pages
...short a voyage brings The Wanderers back to their delight ! Chains tie us down by land and sea ; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee. Perhaps some dungeon hears thee groan, Maimed, mangled by inhuman men ; Or thou upon a Desart thrown... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 416 pages
...short a voyage brings The Wanderers back to their delight ! Chains tie us down by land and sea ; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee. Perhaps some dungeon hears thee groan, Maimed, mangled by inhuman men , Or thou upon a Desert thrown... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...short a voyage brings The Wanderers back to their delight! Chains tic us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thec. Perhaps some dungeon hears thee groan, Maimed, mangled by inhuman men; Or thou upon a Desert... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...short a voyage brings The wanderers bark to their delight! Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thec. Perhaps some dungeon hears thee groan, Maim'd, mangled by inhuman men; Or thou upon a drxnrt... | |
 | Henry Fothergill Chorley - Poets, English - 1836 - 528 pages
...extravagant and extravagantly long letters, you will judge them and their writer by intention and motive. And \feel that you are sad, and I know that you are lonely,...up, madam, or rather believe that you will cheer up, — 1 Heaviness may endure for a night, but joy coraeth in the morning.' ' At even-time there shall... | |
 | 1837 - 860 pages
...short a voyage brings The wanderers back to their delight 1 Chains tie us down by land and sea ; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee. Perhaps some, dungeon hears thee groan, Maimed, mangled by inhuman men ; Or thou, upon a desert thrown,... | |
 | 1841 - 488 pages
...wrote to Mrs. Hemans: — "I feel that you are sad, and I know that you are lonely, and by the time this reaches you, ' Wishes, vain as mine, may be,...thee !' But my hopes are strong for the future. So cheer up, or rather believe that you will cheer up — ' Heaviness may endure for a night, but joy... | |
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Alas! the fowls of heaven have wings, And blasts of heaven will aid their flight; They mount — how short a voyage brings The wanderers back to their delight! Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort... 
