 The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. The birds around me hopped and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure : — But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2141841Full view - About this book
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 478 pages
...cannot measure ; But the least motion, which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. The corresponding impressions of natural objects on the human soul, are illustrated in the four verses,... | |
 | Literature - 1825 - 426 pages
...faith, that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. The bucUling twigs spread out their I'm, To catcli the breezy air ; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. The appearance of this enlarged edition of Dr Bigclow's Plants of Boston, will be hailed with much... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. I 214- LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air...pleasure there. From Heaven if this belief be sent, If such be Nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man ? XI. SIMON LEE, THE... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...cannot measure : — Hut the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air;...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If I these thonghU may not prevent, If such be of my creed the plan, Have I not reason to lament What... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 't is my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air;...must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure IheVe. From Heaven if this belief be sent, If such be Nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1833 - 274 pages
...cannot measure — But the least motion that they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air;...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If this belief from heaven is sent, If such be nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1834 - 610 pages
...cannot measure ; But, the least motion which they made, It seem'da thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan To catch the breezy air:...pleasure there. From Heaven, if this belief be sent, If such be Nature's holy plan ; Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man ?' Wordsworth's Poems,... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Religion and science - 1834 - 608 pages
...cannot measure ; But, the least motion which they made, It seem'da thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan To catch the breezy air...pleasure there. From Heaven, if this belief be sent, If such be Nature's holy plan ; Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man ?' Wordsworth's Poems,... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Bible - 1835 - 460 pages
...cannot measure ; But, the least motion which they made, It seem'da thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan To catch the breezy air:...pleasure there. From heaven, if this belief be sent, Have I not reason to lament If such be nature's holy plan; , What man has made of man l" Ibid. v. 5.... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1835 - 470 pages
...made, It seem'da thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan To catch the breezy air : 4 And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. From heaven, if this belief be sent, If such be .nature's holy р!ал ; Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man Г' Ibid. v.... | |
| |
