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" Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories... "
Folia silvulae: sive, Eclogae poetarum Anglicorum in Latinum et Graecum ... - Page 416
by Hubert Ashton Holden - 1870
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Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1849 - 390 pages
...noblest interpretation will be given, if I repeat the lines of our great contemporary poet : — Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own : Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And e'en with something of a mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make...
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The Poetry and Poets of Britain: From Chaucer to Tennyson ; with ...

Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...way attended ; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her natural kind ; And, even with something of a mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth...
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Poems, Volume 1

Hartley Coleridge - 1851 - 426 pages
...SONNET XIX, line 10. The hospitalities of earth. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own. Yearning she hath in her own natural kind, And even with something...hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. — Wordsworth. SONNET XX, line 9. Love-sick ether. Purple the Bails, and so perfumed, that The winds...
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The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ...

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1851 - 750 pages
...way attended ; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings...Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hatli known, And that imperial palace whence he came. 7. Behold the child among his new-born blisses,...
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Select English poetry, with notes by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...it die away, And fade into the light of common day, Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own j Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even...of a mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely muse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known, And...
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The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Late Poet Laureate

William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...mind, And no unworthy aim, Trie homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmato 7. Behold the child among his new-born blisses, A six years' Darling of n pigmy size ! e 'mid work...
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Hausschatz englischer Poesie: Auswahl aus den Werken der bedeutendsten ...

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...way attended; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings...hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the child among his new-born blisses, — A six years' darling of a pigmy size ! See, where...
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The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe: Constituting a ..., Volume 2

William Howitt, Mary Botham Howitt - English literature - 1852 - 492 pages
...The farther he goes, the more the heavenly inborn light " fades into the light of common day." Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings...inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known, And the imperial palace whence he came. This is the gnosticism of a man comfortably wandering amid the...
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A cyclopædia of poetical quotations, arranged by H.G. Adams

Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...days are number'd, nor remote her doom; As mortal, tho' less transient, than her sons. Young. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings...hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Wordsworth. Oh, there is not lost One of earth's charms from off her bosom yet, After the lapse of...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...himself what yet he could not contemplate at all, were it not a modification of his own being. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings...hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. * * * * * * » 0 joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What...
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