...in the " Lines on revisiting the Wye," by the same author, in which the following passage occurs: " Here I stand, not only with the sense Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thought! That in this moment there is life and food For future years." A CALM WINTER'S NIGHT. How beautiful...

...half-extinguished thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again : While here I stand, not...Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first 1 came among these hills ; when like a roe I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides Of the deep rivers,...

...extinguished thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again : While here I stand, not...Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first 1 came among these hills ; when like a roe I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides Of the deep rivers,...

...half-extinguished thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again : While here I stand, not...hope, Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when tirst 1 came among these hills ; when like a roe I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides Of the...

...picture of the mind revives again : While here I stand, cot only with the sense Of present pleasure, hut heart Lowly douht, from what I was when first I came among these hills ; when like a roe I hounded o'er the mountains,...

...pleasures of their play-time, but as a companion and a friend anxious and, I hope, able to stir them Not only with the sense Of present pleasure, but with...this moment there is life and food For future years. Cricket and football, the river, the fives-court, and the runningground, are, in their own degrees,...

...half-extinguished thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again: While here I stand, not...this moment there is life and food For future years. [...]5 This passage presents the essence of Wordsworthian memory, and it does so in a complex way....

...penetrate duration expressed as a hope that the present is a moment that can someday be remembered. "Here I stand, not only with the sense / Of present...moment there is life and food / For future years." What Wordsworth is really present to, Snyder might have argued, is his own capacity for storing the...

...recording his awareness of his own life's progress, as evidenced most movingly in poems like Tintern Abbey: "Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first / I came among these hills; when like a roe / 1 bounded o'er the mountains" (66-68). There is, however, a crucial difference between Wordsworth's...

...beauteous forms, he feels at once saddened by "many recognitions dim and faint" (line 59) and full of " the sense / Of present pleasure, but with pleasing...moment there is life and food / For future years" (lines 62-65). He achieves a sensation of moral and psychological plenitude by compressing the ordinary...