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" To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks, which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lightly as they... "
Poems - Page 355
by William Wordsworth - 1815
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ...

William Wordsworth - 1870 - 382 pages
...your might ; I only have relinquished one delight To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than...; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. T'lanks to the human heart by which we live, nanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, to me the...
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Mourning and Panegyric: The Poetics of Pastoral Ceremony

Celeste Marguerite Schenck - 1988 - 248 pages
...east / Must travel," follows a similar course. Here is the Ode's version of the Miltonic close: 14 The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. (1I. 197-200) A difference in tone can be discerned between these two passages: Milton's Hnal vision—that...
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Doing Things with Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory

Meyer Howard Abrams - 1989 - 452 pages
...sunset that is effected by a matured mind in terms of a sober coloring projected on the visual radiance: The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. In a parallel way in "Tintern Abbey"...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind. (1. 185—186) 86 string with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming (1. 194-197) 87 To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for...
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Romantic Revisions

Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - 1992 - 396 pages
...times 'Mont Blanc"s impressions of eternity seem to intimate the absence of a Wordsworthian vision: The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality (IO, 199-201) the snows flakes fall deseend Upon that mountain - none beholds them there Nor when the...
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Selected Poems

William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...your might; I only have relinquished one delight To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than...an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; 200 Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks...
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Coleridge's Submerged Politics: The Ancient Mariner and Robinson Crusoe

Patrick J. Keane - 1994 - 452 pages
...spoke of "sober," maturing experiences that alter our youthful perspective. In the Intimations ode, The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. This, the "eye" of an anything but neutral or "ignorant" man, reports no purely independent objective...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...might; 190 I only have relinquished one delight To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret. Even more than...tripped lightly as they; The innocent brightness of a new-bom Day Is lovely yet; The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from...
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A Watch Over Mortality: The Philosophical Story of Julian Marias

Harold C. Raley - 1997 - 300 pages
...TO A NEW PHILOSOPHY In the faith that looks through death. In years that bring the philosophic mind. The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. —Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality In 1973-74, I wrote Responsible Vision: The Philosophy of...
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Corresponding Powers: Studies in Honour of Professor Hisaaki Yamanouchi

George Hughes - 1997 - 274 pages
...from "the westward of a summer's night" might it not be pink rather than silver? Or even red and black ("clouds that gather round the setting sun / Do take a sober colouring")? Leaving that aside, would windows, even in the most enchanted of castles be likely to resemble "a beauteous...
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