...her softening influence, and sowed in it the needed flowers, and touched it with mellowing colours. ' She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares...fountain of sweet tears And love, and thought and joy.' Elsewhere in the ' Prelude ' he describes how at one time his soul had got too much under the dominion...

...her, being then A little prattler among men. The blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares,...fountain of sweet tears : And love, and thought, and joy. A FAREWELL. FAREWELL, thou little nook of mountain ground, Thou rocky corner in the lowest stair Of...

...Alfred could have said of his mother :— " She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares, delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and joy." Her native sense, delicate tact, moral ascendency, firmness of discipline, religious fervour, feminine...

...stanzas as you." — Wordsworth's Memoirs, ii. 74. - Compare Milton, Par. Regained, Book iv. /-. 220. t She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares,...sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy. The Sparrow's Nest. The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door. Lucy Gray. Stanza 2. A simple...

...particularly in the poem following that just mentioned: The blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy: She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares,...fountain of sweet tears, And love, and thought, and joy. After their father died, Dorothy was brought up by a cousin on her mother's side, Miss Threlkeld, afterwards...

...LONDON: RICHARD B^NTLEY AND SON, 1875. (All Rights Rtserved.^ 251. / A LOSING HAZARD. CHAPTER I. " She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares...of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy." WORDSWORTH. N excited crowd, a blazing sun, and a race being run. This was in Holland; September, 1863....

...men. The Blessing of my later years Was with me wheu a boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; Anil humble cares, and delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy. [1S01 1 The poet speaks of his sister under various names. Her real name was Dorothy. See page 04,...

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...sweetness contributed greatly to mould his nature, and open his mind to the influences of poetry : " She gave me eyes, she gave me ears, And humble cares,...fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears, And love aud thought and joy." Thus the gentlest natures are enabled, by the power of affection and intelligence,...