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" NUNS fret not at their convent's narrow room ; And hermits are contented with their cells ; And students with their pensive citadels : Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom, Sit blithe and happy ; bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak... "
The Sonnets of William Wordsworth: Collected in One Volume, with a Few ... - Page 5
by William Wordsworth - 1838 - 477 pages
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Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry

Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...Ettrick monrns with her their poet dead. Kydal Mount, November Snili, 1S35. THE SONNET'S SCANTY PLOT. Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room ; And...are contented with their cells, And students with thc'ir peusivo citadels: Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom, Sit blithe aud happy; bees that...
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Pamphlet Collection: 1-5

Arthur Sampson Napier - 1882 - 846 pages
...vollständig: The Sonnet. Nuns fret not at their convenfs narrow room; And hermits are contented with thcir cells ; And students with their pensive citadels; Maids at the wheel, the weavcr at bis loom, Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for blooni High äs the highest peak of Pnrness...
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The Garden, the Woods, and the Fields; Or, The Teachings of Nature as ...

Garden - Nature study - 1882 - 530 pages
...one of the ends for which he created it. The butterfly which flits from flower to flower, or the " Bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest peak of Furness-fells, And murmur by the hour in foxglove bells ; " the house-fly finding ample verge enough in the motey...
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The Royal Readers: Special Canadian Series ..., Book 5

1883 - 528 pages
...ear. As a rule, those sonnets ring their chimes longest in the memory that have the fewest rhymes.] Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room, And...bees that soar for bloom High as the highest peak of Furness Fells Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells : In truth, the prison unto which we doom Ourselves...
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English Sonnets by Living Writers

Samuel Waddington - Sonnets, English - 1884 - 252 pages
...know not, and thou canst not tell me, so In doubt we'll go together,—thou and I. SAMUEL WADDINGTON. —"bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest...the prison unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison b:—" WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. THE SONNET: ITS HISTORY AND COMPOSITION. T has been suggested that a short...
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The Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Church and the world - 1884 - 792 pages
...poetry is kindred." While Wordsworth, the true restorer of the Sonnet to the English language, sings : Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room ; And...contented with their cells ; And students with their pension citadels ; Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom, Sit blithe and happy; bees, that soar...
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Wordsworth to Dobell

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1884 - 654 pages
...yet from the abyss is caught again, And yet again recovered ! SONNETS. [THE GAINS OF RESTRAINT.] Ntms fret not at their convent's narrow room ; And hermits...are contented with their cells-; And students with Iheir pensive citadels ; Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom, Sit blithe and happy ; bees that...
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Birds in the Bush

Bradford Torrey - Birds - 1885 - 318 pages
.... 185 A BIRD-LOVER'S APRIL 211 AN OWL'S HEAD HOLIDAY 243 A MONTH'S Music ... 277 ON BOSTON COMMON. NUNS fret not at their convent's narrow room; And...bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak of Furuess-fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells : In truth, the prison unto which we doom...
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Bell's Ladies' Reader: a Class-book of Poetry for Schools and Families. With ...

David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 pages
...smash, pounding them into mummy. " Shoulder, hoop !" ^.—VINDICATION OF THE SONNET.—Wordtworth. Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room ; and...bees, that soar for bloom high as the highest peak of Furuess Fells, will murmur by the hour in foxglove-bells: in truth, the prison unto which we doom ourselves...
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Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women

English poetry - 1885 - 668 pages
...constant interchange of growth and die'? WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. SONNETS. THE USES AND BEAUTIES OF THE SONNET. NUNS fret not at their convent's narrow room; And...bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest peak of Furness Fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells : In truth, the prison, unto which we doom...
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