 | Donald Grant Mitchell - American literature - 1897 - 448 pages
...And in their kind, resound their Maker's praise, Whilst I, as mute, can warble forth no higher lays. "When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And...more youthful made ; But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid." I might go on thus from her best poem, of " Contemplations," but should... | |
 | Anne Bradstreet - American poetry - 1897 - 458 pages
...delight; So unawares comes on perpetual night, V',tH And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight. When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then...front are seen; If winter come, and greenness then doth fade, A spring returns, and they 're more youthful made. But man grows old, lies down, remains... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - American literature - 1900 - 598 pages
...And in their kind resound their Maker's praise: Whilst I, as mute, can warble forth no higher lays. "When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And...more youthful made ; But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he 's laid. " By birth more noble than those creatures all, Yet seems by nature... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - American literature - 1900 - 594 pages
...And in their kind resound their Maker's praise: Whilst I, as mute, can warble forth no higher lays. "When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And...more youthful made ; But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he 's laid. " By birth more noble than those creatures all, Yet seems by nature... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells - American literature - 1901 - 316 pages
...in their kind resound their Maker's praise : Whilst I, as mute, can warble forth no higher lays. ' When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then...more youthful made ; But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he "s laid. By birth more noble than those creatures all, Yet seems by nature and... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - Literary Criticism - 1903 - 466 pages
...master, and require no apology. This is true, for instance, of her poem upon " The Seasons" : — " When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then...more youthful made ; But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he '& laid. " Shall I then praise the heavens, the trees, the earth, Because their... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - Literary Criticism - 1903 - 378 pages
...master, and require no apology. This is true, for instance, of her poem upon " The Seasons " : — " When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then...more youthful made ; But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he 's laid. " Shall I then praise the heavens, the trees, the earth, Because their... | |
 | Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - American literature - 1904 - 478 pages
...Delight, which was published in 1678, six years after Mrs. Bradstreet's death, will show her at her best: "When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And...more youthful made ; But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid. "O Time, the fatal wrack of mortal things, That draws oblivion's curtains... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 352 pages
...And in their kind, resound their Maker's praise, Whilst I, as mute, can warble forth no higher lays. "When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And...more youthful made; But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he 's laid." I might go on thus from her best poem, of "Contemplations," but should... | |
 | William B. Cairns - American literature - 1909 - 528 pages
...vain delight So unawares comes on perpetual night, And puts all pleasures vain unto eternal flight. 18 When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) stil clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible to time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are... | |
| |
When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth, though old, still clad in green, The stones and trees insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; If winter come, and greenness then do fade, A spring returns, and they... 
