...and often gave expression to his utter heartsickness and earth-weariness in such lines as these: " I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away this life of care Which I have borne and still must bear." Deal gently with his frailties for the sake of what is pure...

...end is at best a quiet misery. But now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are ; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away this life of care. At worst it is a passionate and vain rebellion. It was said about three of the most distinguished among...

...not seek" relief in nature for his own overwrought feelings. He does not personify her and long to 'lie down like a tired child and weep away this life of care' on her bosom. He does not even seek in nature 'that blessed mood in which the burden of the mystery...

...does not seek relief in nature for his own overwrought feelings. He does not personify her and long to 'lie down like a tired child and weep away this life of care' on her bosom. He does not even seek in nature 'that blessed mood in which the burden of the mystery...

...famous sonnet — " Tired with all these, for restful death I crj." It is in Shelley — " I could sit. down like a tired child And weep away this life of care. David, then, is not by himself in wanting wings. To sigh and. long for rest sometimes is natural. Let...

...weakness of men, and the cruelty and blindness of destiny. Hers is not the dejection of the poet who "could lie down like a tired child, and weep away this life of care," as Shelley at Naples; nor is it the despairing misery that moved Cowper in the awful verses of the...

...weakness of men, and the cruelty and blindness of destiny. Hers is not the dejection of the poet who " could lie down like a tired child, And weep away this life of care," as Shelley at Naples ; nor is it the despairing misery that moved Cowper in the awful verses of the...

...weakness of men, and the cruelty and blindness of destiny. Hers is not the dejection of the poet who " could lie down like a tired child, And weep away this life of care," as Shelley at Naples ; nor is it the despairing misery that moved Cowper in the awful verses of the...

...both sides, as it was my first time of leaving home. The train started, and as the poet sayeth: "I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away this life of care, Which I have borne, and yet must bear." Though I had to work hard I was fairly happy in this place,...

...to emotion, instead of its transformation by activity, practical or aesthetic. When Shelley wrote: I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away this life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear, 1 he was, from a practical point of view, sentimental, because...