There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day,... The North British review - Page 5341850Full view - About this book
| Tom Walsh - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2007 - 200 pages
...Early Childhood William Wordsworth There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial...dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore;-- Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more. The Rainbow... | |
| Adam Sisman - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 540 pages
...the irrevocable loss of inspiration: There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial...dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more. And the attempt... | |
| Miguel de Unamuno - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 226 pages
...This poem begins with the lines, "There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, / The earth, and every common sight / To me did seem / Apparelled in.../ It is not now as it hath been of yore— / Turn wheresoe'er I may, / By night or day, / The things which I have seen I now can see no more." There... | |
| Leonard Shengold - Psychology - 2006 - 282 pages
...grove, and stream The earth and every common sight To me did seem Appareled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; Turn wheresoe'er I may. By night or day The things which I have seen I now can see no more. [Change means... | |
| Geoffrey H. Hartman - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 351 pages
..."glory" (synonymous with "aura") whose loss Wordsworth deplored in the Intimations Ode: "Turn wheresoe'er I may / By night or day, / The things which I have seen I now can see no more." Yet we fear the restoration of wonder as much as its loss: the danger of being... | |
| Nancy Bogen - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 426 pages
...The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more. II The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose, The Moon doth with delight... | |
| Mary Harmon Weeks - Child rearing - 1914 - 332 pages
...Wordsworth describes this period in his ode : "There was a time when meadow, grove and stream, The earth and every common sight To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light. " The child is in that period of life parallel to the time when man and woman lived in a garden and knew... | |
| Eddie Wainwright - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 114 pages
...are some of the significant passages: There was a time when meadow, grove and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem apparelled in celestial...a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore... ...The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath past away a glory... | |
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