 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...floors, for one feast-night. Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long, barren silence, square with my desire ; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, In the lov'd presence of my cottage-fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle, whispering its... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...floors, for one feast-night. Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long, barren silence, square with my desire ; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, In the lov'd presence of my cottage-fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle, whispering its... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 362 pages
...floors, for one feast-night. Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long, barren silence, square with my desire ; To sit without emotion, hope, or...flame, Or kettle, whispering its faint undersong. XXII. cONTINUED. " YET life," you say, " is life; we have seen and see, And with a living pleasure... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...floors, for one feast-night. Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long, barren silence, square with my desire ; To sit without emotion, hope, or...the flame, Or kettle whispering its faint undersong. XXXIX. CONTINUED. "¥ET life," you say, " is life ; we have seen and see, And with a living pleasure... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...floors, for one feast-night. Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long, barren silence, square with my desire ; To sit without emotion, hope, or...the flame, Or kettle whispering its faint undersong. Personal " YET life," you say, " is life ; we have seen and see, Talk And with a living pleasure we... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...floors, for one feast-night. Better than suck discourse doth silence long, Long, barren silence, square with my desire; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim,...loved presence of my cottage-fire, And listen to the (lapping of the ll.ime, Or kettle whispering its faint undersong. CONTINUED. « Yet )ife,»you&ay,... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...floors, for one feastnight. Better than such discourse doth silence long, I>«ng, barren silence, square px * `X * lov'd presence of my cottage-fire, And I], i, -ii to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle, whispering... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 536 pages
...floors, for one feast night. Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long barren silence, square with my desire; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, In the loved presence of my cottage fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle whispering its faint under-song."... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...floors, for one feast night. Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long, barren silence square with my desire : To sit without emotion, hope or aim, In the loved presence of my cottaye fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle whispering its faint under-song."... | |
 | Johnstone - English essays - 1840 - 386 pages
...floors, for one feast night. Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long barren silence square with my desire ; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, In the loved presence of my cottage fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle whispering its faint under-song."... | |
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Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long, barren silence, square with my desire ; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, In the loved presence of my cottage-fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle whispering its faint undersong. 
