 Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye, and ear, — both what they half create, And what perceive ; well pleased to recognise In nature...  the poets of lhkeland wordsworth - Page 339by T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874Full view - About this book
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...we behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create And what perceive ; well pleased to recognise In Nature,...guardian of my heart and soul, Of all my moral being." On Saturday morning, the nthof June.'iSsg, after an early breakfast, I left the Bury station of the... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...earth ; of all the mighty world Of eye, and ear,— hoth what they half ereate, And what pereeive ; well pleased to recognise In nature and the language...the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral heing. Nor perehance, If I were not thus taught, should I the more Suffer my genial spirits to decay... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1871 - 630 pages
...behold From this green earth ; of all the mighty wort Of eye, and ear,— both what they half create. And what perceive : well pleased to recognise In nature...nurse, \ The guide, the guardian of my heart, and ьои!\ Of all my moral being. -,• Nor perchance, If I were not thus taught, should I the more Suffer... | |
 | U. C. Knoepflmacher - History - 1998 - 470 pages
...Abbey." It is immanent, however, in a Nature described, much like the matriarch of The Prelude, as the "anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, / The guide, the guardian of my heart" (lines 109-10). Carroll's own regressive yearning for a maternal nesting place is clearly related to... | |
 | Michael Clark - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 272 pages
...poet hears beneath the frantic cacophony of life, and this is the music that constitutes for the poet, "In nature and the language of the sense, / The anchor of my purest thoughts . . . and soul / Of all my moral being."-1 A still music, a gentle power, an anchor of thought in the... | |
 | Gordon Mursell - Religion - 2001 - 604 pages
...behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye, and ear, - both what they half create, And what perceive; well pleased to recognise In nature...the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.51 It is vital to note the connections here between beauty and morality, between feelings and... | |
 | Emma Driver - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 150 pages
...youth. The real meaning in nature is now fully revealed and we find out what the speaker sees in God: The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide,...guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being. (109-11) Lines 111-59 The final section is addressed to a specific person — the speaker's sister.... | |
 | Leon Waldoff - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 192 pages
...Another indication of the psychological content of the intensity is the figuring of Nature as maternal, "the nurse, / The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul / Of all my moral being," and as a presence that "never did betray / The heart that loved her" (109— II, 122—23). When the... | |
 | Kristine S. Santilli - Gesture in literature - 2002 - 182 pages
...if they were the gestures of his own body. Wordsworth refers to this source of his personal being as "the anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, / The...guardian of my heart, and soul / Of all my moral being" t100-01). But when he sees "into the life of things" during his epiphanic return after five long years,... | |
 | Richard Hayman - History - 2003 - 300 pages
...we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye, and ear, both what they half create And what perceive; well pleased to recognise In nature...the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.4 Wordsworth's use of authentic everyday language in Lyrical Ballads was an attempt to strip... | |
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