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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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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

Great Britain - 1864 - 974 pages
...And fade into the light of common day. VI. " Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearaings she hath in her own natural kind; And even with something...hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came." In the same grand strain the ode continues and ends. That Wordsworth actually believed in this Platonic...
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A Selection from the Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1865 - 316 pages
...attended ; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. VI 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 'mid...
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A Selection from the Works of William Wordsworth, Poet Laureate

William Wordsworth - 1865 - 318 pages
...attended ; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. VI Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings...hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. VII Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years' Darling of a pigmy size ! See, where...
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Spring-time with the poets, poetry selected and arranged by F. Martin

Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 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 'mid...
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Poems of the Inner Life: Selected Chiefly from Modern Authors

R. C. J. - English poetry - 1866 - 304 pages
...attended; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. VL Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings...hath known. And that imperial palace whence he came. VIL Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six-years' Darling of a pigmy size ! Q 2 See, where...
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The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...attended : At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. 6. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own. Yearnings...hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. 7. Behold the child among his new-born blisses — A six years' darling of a pigmy size ! See, where...
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Poems, selected and ed. by R.A. Willmott. Illustr

William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 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...Forget the glories he hath known, And that Imperial Palare whence he came. VII. See, where 'raid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his...
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Gems of English poetry from Chaucer to the present times, selected and ...

Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...way attended ; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the lap 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 'mid...
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Gems of English poetry from Chaucer to the present times, selected and ...

Mary Anne Marzials - English poetry - 1867 - 332 pages
...way attended ; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the lap 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 'mid...
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Cambridge Characteristics in the Seventeenth Century: Or the Studies of the ...

James Bass Mullinger - 1867 - 228 pages
...the language of a modern poet not inaptly expresses the conception of the ancient philosopher : — "The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child,...hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came." But real happiness is not thus to be attained. It is only as the soul re-approaches its original source,...
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