 Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.  The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly - Page 10edited by - 1838Full view - About this book
 | George Hughes - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 274 pages
...from "the westward of a summer's night" might it not be pink rather than silver? Or even red and black ("clouds that gather round the setting sun / Do take a sober colouring")? Leaving that aside, would windows, even in the most enchanted of castles be likely to resemble "a beauteous... | |
 | Klaus P. Mortensen - Drama - 1998 - 208 pages
...and emanates light from a sphere beyond the earthly: The Clouds that gather round the setting sun,7" Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; (PW IV p.285 verse XI) This eye is not the sensing, visionary human eye that colours what it sees,... | |
 | Antony H. Harrison - History - 1998 - 212 pages
...Shepherd boy," but for him nonetheless (William The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Wordsworth, Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. By contrast, Rossetti's speaker rejects as a "foolish fancy" the desire for liberation from self-imprisonment... | |
 | Laura Quinney - 1999 - 232 pages
...anticipates and accepts the prospect of a darkened existence, permanently "subdued" and "chastened": The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. (i97-99) Once again, he identifies his new role as that of the witness or observer, a passive role... | |
 | James R. Watson - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 248 pages
...the darker side of William Wordsworth's famous ode, selecting these lines as an epigraph to the book: The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. A later book on Heidegger, Daimon Life: Heidegger and Life-Philosophy (1992), did not entirely surrender... | |
 | Liz Rosenberg - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2000 - 168 pages
...channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lightly as they; The innocent brightness of a newborn Day Is lovely yet; The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms... | |
 | David L. Paterson, Steve Liebman - Musicals - 2001 - 60 pages
...compose herself. She takes a big quivering sigh, and takes one step towards the audience.) GILLY.) ALL. THANKS TO THE HUMAN HEART BY WHICH WE LIVE THANKS TO ITS TENDERNESS, ITS JOYS, ITS FEARS (Gilly 's spot brightens.) GILLY. TO ME THE MEANEST FLOWER THAT BLOWS CAN GIVE ALL. THOUGHTS... | |
 | Catherine Robson - Art - 2001 - 270 pages
...195-96), he is clearly in emotional harmony not with the day's beginning, but the day's end, where "The Clouds that gather round the setting sun / Do take a sober colouring" (1l. 19798). Significantly, the narrator in the Ode is watching and describing not his own childhood... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - Philosophy - 2002 - 312 pages
...also inseparable from those aspirations of his own mind which he read into the scenes around him : — The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...mortality: Another race hath been, and other palms are won. The natural affinity of Keats with the Greek mind is curiously illustrated by a letter to a friend,... | |
 | Stuart Peterfreund - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 432 pages
...is won by the individual who lives a seasonable, heartfelt life under Nature's "more habitual sway": "Another race hath been, and other palms are won. /Thanks to the human heart by which we live" (WPW, 11.192, 200-201). To live such a life is to cultivate "the philosophic mind" (1. 187) that comes... | |
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