 With rod and line I sued the sport Which that sweet season gave, And, to the church-yard come, stopped short Beside my daughter's grave. Nine summers had she scarcely seen, The pride of all the vale ; And then she sang; — she would have been A very...  The Quarterly Review - Page 312edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...sang !—she would have been ' A very nightingale. ' Six feet in earth my Emma lay, ' And yet I lov'd her more, ' For so it seem'd, than till that day ' I e'er had lov'd before. VoL. II. 1 2 ' And, turning from her grave, I met ' Beside the church-yard Yew ' A blooming... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...seen, The pride of all the vale ; And then she sang ; — she would have been A very nightingale. " Six feet in earth my Emma lay ; And yet I loved her more, For so it seemed, than till that day I e'er had loved before. " And, turning from her grave, I met Beside the... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...seen, The pride of all the vale ; And then she sang ; — she would have been A very nightingale. " Six feet in earth my Emma lay ; And yet I loved her more, For so it seemed, than till that day I e'er had loved before. " And, turning from her grave, I met Beside the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...seen, The pride of all the vale ; And then she sang ; — she would have been A very nightingale. " Six feet in earth my Emma lay ; And yet I loved her more, For so it seemed, than till that day I e'er had loved before. " And, turning from her grave, I met, Beside the... | |
 | Flowers - 1835 - 174 pages
...scarcely seen, The pride of all the vale ; And then she sang—she would have been A very nightingale. " Six feet in earth my Emma lay ; And yet I loved her more, For so it seemed, that till that day I e'er had loved before. " And, turning from her grave I met, Beside the... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 pages
...seen, The pride of all the vale ; / • And then she sang — she would have been A very nightingale. Six feet in earth my Emma lay; And yet I loved her more — For so it seemed — than till that day I e'er had loved before. And, turning from her grave, I met, Beside the... | |
 | Literature - 1896 - 926 pages
...fleet than a wave or a rhyme. We know this style; not by its heart of thought, but by its parti-colored raiment. The voice is the voice of Mr. Swinburne,...more. For so it seem'd. than till that day I e'er had loveil before. The voice of Wordsworth not at his best, but Wordsworth's intellectual method is displayed... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...scarcely seen, The pride of all the vale ; And then she sang ; — she would have been A very nightingale. Six feet in earth my Emma lay ; And yet I loved her more, For so it seemed, than till that day I e'er had loved before. And, turning from her grave, I met, Beside the... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 380 pages
...scarcely seen, The pride of all the vale, And then she sang — she would have been A very nightingale. " Six feet in earth my Emma lay, And yet I loved her more, For so it seemed, than till that day I e'er had loved before." And in another poem, how truly he touches the... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 384 pages
...scarcely seen, The pride of all the vale, And then she sang — she would have been A very nightingale. " Six feet in earth my Emma lay, And yet I loved her more, For so it seemed, than till that day I e'er had loved before." " If there is one who need bemoan His kindred... | |
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