 I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember The...  Historical Sketches and Reminiscences of an Octogenarian - Stran 110avtor: Thomas Lewis Preston - 1900 - 164 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 strani
...laburnum on his birth-day, — The tree is growing yet ! I remember, I remember The fir trees dark and high — • I used to think their slender tops...I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy ! " HIS COMIC VEIN. 249 For a long time Hood seemed content to take his place as a mere clever rhyming... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 strani
...brow ! I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender spires, Were close against the sky ! It was a childish ignorance,...farther off from heaven, Than when I was a boy. HoOD. XXXI. MUTABILITY. " THE time in which I live is but a small moment of this world's history. It is a... | |
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...brow ! I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender spires, Were close against the sky ! It was a childish ignorance, — But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven, Than when I was a boy. CAKOLINE NOETON. AN EMBLEM OF LIFE. OH ! life is like... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 strani
...And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow ! I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky : It was a childish ignoranee, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THE SONG... | |
 | Thomas Binney - 1851 - 166 strani
...applies : — " I remember — I remember The poplars straight and high ; I used to think their spiry tops Were close against the sky. " It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To KNOW I 'm further off from heaven Than when I mas a boy." Sir Powell Buxton delighted... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 strani
...And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow ! I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were...ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther otf from heav'n Than when I was a boy. Ode. Oh! well may poets make a fuss In summer time, and sigh,... | |
 | Alice Bradley Haven - 1857 - 210 strani
...spoke his simple, earnest faith. He was not the only one who can feel the pathos of the ballad — "But now, 'tis little joy — To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy." Manhood's trust has been tried to the very core ; it has been buffeted by doubts and weakened by temptation,... | |
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...And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow ! I remember, I remember, The fir-trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender tops Were...I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. CVIII.— EARTH'S ANGELS. ANONYMOUS. WHY come not spirits from the realms of glory, To visit earth... | |
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...displaced, and left afloat, they know not where, in infinite space. Hood, in "1 remember," truly says— " It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy,...I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy." A poor, ignorant woman in England disputed with an Astronomer concerning the stars. She contended that... | |
 | Mrs. J. S. F. Lunt - 1853 - 144 strani
...FRIEND. 16 I remember, I remember The fir-trees, dark and high; I used to think their slender spires Were close against the sky ! It was a childish ignorance,— But now ft is little joyTo know I *m further oft' from heaven Than when I was a boy ! HOOD. TO A FRIEND. Tis... | |
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