 That spectacle, for many days, my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being ; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion. No familiar shapes Remained, no pleasant images of trees, Of sea...  The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Page 437by William Wordsworth - 1869 - 704 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1850 - 412 pages
...call it solitude Or blank desertion. No familiar shapes Remained, no pleasant images of trees. Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields ; But huge and...the mind By day, and were a trouble to my dreams. ( 2 ) Wisdom and Spirit of the universe ! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1850 - 388 pages
...blank desertion. No familiar shapes Remained, no pleasant images of trees, Of sea or sky, no colors of green fields ; But huge and mighty forms, that...the mind By day, and were a trouble to my dreams. (2) Wisdom and Spirit of the universe ! Thou soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to... | |
 | 1850 - 544 pages
...Remain 'd, no pleasant images of trees, Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields ; But huge and misty forms, that do not live Like living men, moved slowly...the mind By day, and were a trouble to my dreams. — P. 1 8. He next tells of the effect which the presence of man had upon his youthful mi ml , as... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins - Ohio - 1851 - 572 pages
...longings for purity and peace. Well might he have echoed Wordsworth's sublime strain of gratitude : — " Wisdom and Spirit of the universe ! Thou soul that...and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in rain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1859 - 432 pages
...Jjlankjlgsertion. No familiar shapes Remained, no pleasant images of trees, Of sea or sky, no colors of green fields ; But huge and mighty forms, that...the mind By day, and were a trouble to my dreams. *Wisdotn_and jSpirit of the universe ! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms... | |
 | Arminianism - 1869 - 1208 pages
...pleasant images of trees, Of sea or sky, no colours of green field« ; TOL. XT.— FIFTH BEBIES. * Bat huge and mighty forms, that do not live Like living...the mind By day, and were a trouble to my dreams." As he grew older, his love of Nature increased. Nothing escaped him. Hie susceptibility to impressions... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1871 - 630 pages
...call it solitude Or blank desertion. No familiar shapes Remained, no pleasant images of trees, Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields : But huge and...•Like living men, moved slowly through the mind day, and were a trouble to my dreams. Wisdom and Spirit of the universe ! 5u Soul that art the eternity... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1873 - 840 pages
...blank desertion. No familiar shapes Remained, no pleasant images of trees, Of sea or sky, no colors of green fields ; But huge and mighty forms, that...the mind By day, and were a trouble to my dreams.' I could multiply passages endlessly with delight to myself, but most likely with weariness to you ;... | |
 | American literature - 1873 - 808 pages
...blank desertion. No familiar shapes Remained, no pleasant images of trees, Of sea or sky, no colors of green fields ; But huge and mighty forms, that...the mind By day, and were a trouble to my dreams." I could multiply passages endlessly with delight to myself, but most likely with weariness to you ;... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Death in literature - 1873 - 490 pages
...thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Of blank desertion. No familiar shapes Remained . . . But huge and mighty forms, that do not live Like living...the mind By day, and were a trouble to my dreams." Leigh Hunt makes signal record in his memoirs, of the afflictions his childhood endured, on the nightside... | |
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