 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1880 - 730 pages
...numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago : Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day ? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again ! "Whate'erthe theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending ; 1 saw her singing at her... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...old, unhappy, far-oft things, And battles long ago : Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar mai ter of to-day ? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain. That has been, and may be again ! Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang As if her song could have no ending ; I saw her singing at her... | |
 | Janet Hamilton - 1880 - 540 pages
...her simple stories of Scottish life, expressing, like the songs of Wordsworth's "Highland Reaper," '' Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again." In all these departments Janet is more or less mistress, and that not so much from originality or splendour... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 654 pages
...numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago : Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again ? Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending ; I saw her singing at her... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - 1881 - 348 pages
...numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago : Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day ? Some natural sorrow, loss or pain That has been, and may be again ? Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang As if her song could have no ending ; I saw her singing at her... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 pages
...numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of today? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again! (17-24) The misery the Wordsworths saw on their journey is elided into "faroff things," and specific... | |
 | Lynn A. Higgins, Brenda R. Silver - 1991 - 352 pages
...numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again? Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending: I saw her singing at her work,... | |
 | H. G. Widdowson - 1992 - 248 pages
...numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, 20 And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again? 25 Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang As if her song could have no ending; 1 saw her singing at her... | |
 | Don H. Bialostosky - 1992 - 336 pages
...numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain. That has been, and may be again? Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending; I saw her singing at her work.... | |
 | 1993 - 412 pages
...嶼組成。 For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago; Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of today? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again? Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending; I saw her singing at her work,... | |
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Will no one tell me what she sings? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be... 
