 | Hugh W. Becket - 1882 - 538 Seiten
...thoughts and feelings shall not die, ' Nor leave thee when grey hairs are nigh ' A melancholy stave, ' But an old age serene and bright, ' And lovely as a Lapland night, ' Shall lead thee to thy grave." I have said that snowshoeing is the chief of our winter sports, but it is by no means the only one.... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 Seiten
...Wellington. St. 4. A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free. v. WOEDSWOETH— The Fountain. people! To hear t w. WOBDSWOBTU- To a Young Lady. Thus fares it still in our decay, And yet the wiser mind Mourns less... | |
 | Guide - 1882 - 100 Seiten
...without his fame, And leave a dead unprofitable name." *' Earth has not anything to show more fair." *' An old age, serene and bright And lovely as a Lapland night Shall lead thee to thy grave." " My face is my fortune." " Still caring, despairing, must be my bitter doom; My woes here shall close... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1882 - 720 Seiten
...thing A Woman may be made. Thy thoughts and feelings shall not die. Nor leave thee, when grey hairs are nigh, A melancholy slave ; But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night. 26 WORDSWORTH. HART-LEAP WELL. Hart-Leap Well ia a small spring of water, about five miles from Richmond... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1882 - 642 Seiten
...die, Nor leave thee, when grey hairs are nigh, A melancholy slave ; But an old age serene and hright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. i803. WATER-FOWL. " Let me he allowed the aid of verse to descrihe the evolutions which these visitants... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 Seiten
...when mortal voices bid. Dion. Shalt show us how divine a thing A Woman may be made. To a Young Lady. But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to tin1 grave. find. When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain... | |
 | William Walters - 1883 - 208 Seiten
...Very miserable ! " While of others, should they live long enough, you may reasonably predict, that — "An old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead them to their grave." If we have endeavoured to order our lives according to the will of GOD, and spend... | |
 | Amelia E. Barr - 1883 - 332 Seiten
...this Andrew never left Sinverness; but, the past unsighed for and the future sure, passed through " an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night," until, one summer evening, he gently fell on that sleep which God giveth his beloved. " For such Death's... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1883 - 452 Seiten
...die, Nor leave thee, when grey hairs are nigh, A melancholy slave ; But an old age serene and bright,1 And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. This and the preceding poem were addressed to Dorothy Wordsworth. Compare the last stanza of the second... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1884 - 648 Seiten
...reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the frivolous competitions, factions, and debates of mankind." " Old age, serene and bright, And lovely as a. Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave." — WORDSWORTH. is a beauty in age. The morning of life may be glowing with the expectations of youth... | |
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But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. 
