| 1853 - 458 páginas
...now, 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...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... | |
| 1853 - 906 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1854 - 428 páginas
...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 fir trees dark and high...childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know Fm farther off from heaven Than wnen I was a boy. THE PORTRAIT: BEING AN APOLOGY FOB. NOT MAKING AN... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1854 - 424 páginas
...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 fir trees dark and high...childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I 'm farther off from heav'n Than when I was a boy. BALLAD. SIGH on sad heart, for Love's eclipse And... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 páginas
...now, 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...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 was a boy. BALLAD. SIGH on, sad heart,... | |
| George Payson - 1854 - 530 páginas
...didn't mean that exactly ; I was thinking of the lines, Hood's I believe they are, — ' 1 remember t I remember the fir trees dark and high, I used to...think their slender tops were close against the sky. I'm wiser now than I was then ; but, ah ! 'tis little joy, To think I'm farther off from heaven than... | |
| Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 páginas
...in heaven! W. Martin. I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high, I used to think their tiny tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy, To know I 'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy! T. Hood Blessed Jesus ever loved to trace The innocent... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 páginas
...in feathers, then, That is so heavy now, 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 spires, Were close against the sky ! It was a childish ignorance, — But now 'tis little joy To know... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1854 - 264 páginas
...feathers, then, That is so heavy now, And the summer pool can scarcely cool The fever on my 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 't is little joy, To know... | |
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