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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... "
A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ... - Page 146
by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1856 - 570 pages
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The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...his 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...her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mothers mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her...
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The Sacred Poets of England and America: For Three Centuries

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 pages
...his 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...And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace...
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The Poems of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...way attended ; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. Harth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings...And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace...
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Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 390 pages
...the 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 - 1850 - 596 pages
...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...And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her iumate man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace...
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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...And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace...
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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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Hausschatz englischer Poesie: Auswahl aus den Werken der bedeutendsten ...

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...on his 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...And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace...
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The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe: Constituting a ..., Volume 2

William Howitt, Mary Botham Howitt - 1852 - 486 pages
...boy. 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...And no unworthy aim ; The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known, And the imperial palace...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 pages
...independent of 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...And no unworthy aim The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace...
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