 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods And mountains, and of all that we hehold From this green earth. — of all the mighty world...guardian, of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. DIED 1861. The most learned, and perhaps the most talented, of English... | |
 | Poems - 1872 - 362 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 recognize •...guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being. Nor, perchance, If I were not thus taught, should I the more Suffer my genial spirits to decay : For... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...All thmking things, all objects of all thought, [am I still And rolls through all things. Therefore A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains...' Of eye and ear, both what they half create,* And let the misty mountain winds be free To blow against thee . and, in after years. When these wild ecstasies... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1873 - 628 pages
...All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains...guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being." One more passage I give you from one of his less-known, though, I think, one of his greatest poems,... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1873 - 336 pages
...as orthodox, while we hail as truly scientific, Wordsworth's great saying— ' Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods And mountains...guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.' II. CHALK-STREAM STUDIES. IT. CHALK-STREAM STUDIES.1 FISHING is generally associated in men's minds... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains;...sense, The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, no The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being. Nor perchance, If I were not... | |
 | Bryn Green - Ecosystem management - 1996 - 382 pages
...All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains;...they half create, And what perceive; well pleased to recognise In nature and the language of the sense, The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The... | |
 | R. L. Brett - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 280 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 recognize In nature...guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being. It is easy to trace in the poem the influence of Berkeley and Hartley, but it was Wordsworth's own... | |
 | Marion Montgomery - Literary Collections - 1997 - 296 pages
...that creation which is separate from consciousness. He is assured of that something by an experience of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, — both what...language of the sense, The anchor of my purest thoughts and soul Of all my moral being. That firm belief in Wordsworth, Eliot's poem suggests, is but belief... | |
 | Klaus P. Mortensen - Drama - 1998 - 208 pages
...retained his original love of nature. It is still a totality, it is still the 58 Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains;...the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.34 (PW II p.262 11. 102-111) To this point of view nature, ie elementary nature, is the firm... | |
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And the round ocean and the living air And the blue sky, and in the mind of man — A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods... 
