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" Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest,... "
From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from ... - Page 293
by Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 317 pages
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Poems from the Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1853 - 300 pages
...Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy, But He beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy ; The Youth, who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At...
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An Excursion Among the Poets

H. C. Foster - 1853 - 378 pages
...Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy ; But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, — He sees it in his joy ; The youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At...
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The Temple of Education ...

T. E. Poynting - 1853 - 402 pages
...Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy , But he beholds the light, and whence it flows He sees it in his joy ; " The youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 5

William Wordsworth - 1854 - 384 pages
...earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth...yet remembers What was so fugitive ! The thought of pur past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd ...

Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1854 - 192 pages
...— such a piece of inspired philosophy — we do not believe exists elsewhere in human language: — "O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions : not indeed For that...
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The Testimony of the Poets

Epes Sargent - 1854 - 388 pages
...Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy ; But he beholds the light, and whence it flows,— He sees it in his joy ; The youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At...
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Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School

1854 - 456 pages
...Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy ; But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy ; The youth, who daily farther from the east And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At length the man perceives it die awny, And...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 3

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 758 pages
...fade into the light of common day." And pages 352 to 354 of the same ode.* " 0 j°7 • that m OU1> embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive 1 The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions : not indeed For that which...
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Ten Sermons of Religion

Theodore Parker - 1855 - 420 pages
...wheel. When God turns the mill, who shall stop it ? There is a spark from the good God in us all. " O, joy that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive." Methinks I see some thoughtful man, studious of truth, his intellectual piety writ on his tall pale...
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Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School

Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy ; But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy ; The youth, who daily farther from the east INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY. And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At length the...
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