 | Walt Whitman - 1926 - 242 Seiten
...and of the poet of the Poet's Epitaph, who is what he wished to be and partly was, he said that he both Man and Boy Hath been an idler in the land ; Contented if he might enjoy The things which others understand. So again and again Whitman calls himself an idler and even a loafer... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1927 - 734 Seiten
...round us lie Some random truths he can impart, — The harvest of a quiet eye That broods and sleeps on his own heart But he is weak ; both Man and Boy,...an idler in the land ; Contented if he might enjoy The things which others understand. — Come hither in thy hour of strength ; Come, weak as is a breaking... | |
 | John Dover Wilson - 1927 - 310 Seiten
...round us lie Some random truths he can impart, — The harvest of a quiet eye That broods and sleeps on his own heart. But he is weak; both Man and Boy,...an idler in the land; Contented if he might enjoy The things which others understand. — Come hither in thy hour of strength; Come, weak as is a breaking... | |
 | Arthur Beatty - 1928 - 582 Seiten
...round us lie Some random truths he can impart, — The harvest of a quiet eye That broods and sleeps on his own heart. But he is weak; both Man and Boy,...an idler in the land; Contented if he might enjoy The things which others understand. — Come hither in thy hour of strength; Come, weak as is a breaking... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1903 - 248 Seiten
...Poet's Epitaph might serve to describe either the idiot or the poet who celebrated his adventures — But he is weak ; both Man and Boy Hath been an idler in the land ; Contented if he might enjoy The things which others understand. Nevertheless, the word " Idiot " does its old accustomed work ;... | |
 | James Lewis May - 1924 - 310 Seiten
...rather a contempt for the knowledge-mongers, and we may say of him that he, like Wordsworth : ". . . both Man and Boy Hath been an idler in the land; Contented if he might enjoy The things which others understand." He is too great to be clever, too wise to be dogmatic. He is indulgent... | |
 | Willard Spiegelman - 1995 - 234 Seiten
...the dilemma, but whether this key will open an entry or lock it more firmly is a delicate question: But he is weak, both man and boy, Hath been an idler in the land, Contented if he might enjoy The things which others understand. — Come hither in thy hour of strength, Come, weak as is a breaking... | |
 | Margaret Russett - 1997 - 318 Seiten
...worthy of" this regard. The poem concludes with an ironic transvaluation and an offer of hospitality: But he is weak, both man and boy, Hath been an idler in the land; Contented if he might enjoy The things which others understand. — Come hither in thy hour of strength, Come, weak as is a breaking... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston - 1998 - 1018 Seiten
...("some random truths he can impart"), but the similarity of his actions fits Wordsworth very well: But he is weak, both man and boy, Hath been an idler in the land; . . . — Come hither in thy hour of strength, Come, weak as is a breaking wave! Here stretch thy body... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - 2000 - 324 Seiten
...random truths he can impart; — The harvest of a quiet eye That broods and sleeps on his own heart.1 But he is weak; both Man and Boy, Hath been an idler in the land; Contented if he might enjoy The things which others understand. From Meredith's The Spirit of Shakespeare. Thy greatest knew thee,... | |
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The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, he has viewed ; And impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude. In common things that round us lie Some random truths he can impart, — The harvest of a quiet eye That broods and sleeps... 
