 But thou, that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. Meek loveliness is round thee spread — A softness still and holy, The grace of forest charms decayed, And pastoral melancholy.  Poems, selected from the best eds - Page 133by William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1880Full view - About this book
 | 1873 - 824 pages
...another Yarrow! And its charming pendant, ' Yarrow Visited ' ? But thou that didst appear so f;iir To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day...softness still and holy ; The grace of forest charms decay'd, And pastoral melancholy. Wo must add one more stanza, to complete the subject, from ' Yarrow... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...pity sanctifies the verso That paints, by strength of sorrow, The unconquerable strength of love ; tripe seven days in a week: I like those here dinners...nothing at all." "O — ho ! " quoth my friend, "h theo spread, A softness still and holy ; The grace of forest charms decay'd, And pastoral melancholy.... | |
 | Dorothy Wordsworth - Great Britain - 1874 - 396 pages
...strength of sorrow, The unconquerable strength of love ; Bear witness, rueful Yarrow ! But thou, thou didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival...pastoral melancholy. That region left, the vale unfolds .1 ! icli groves of lofty stature, With Yarrow winding through the pomp Of cultivated nature ; And,... | |
 | John Clark Murray - Ballads, English - 1874 - 234 pages
...To utter notes of gladness, And chase the silence from the air That fills my heart with sadness ! " But thou, that didst appear so fair To fond imagination,...: Meek loveliness is round thee spread, A softness mild and holy, The grace of forest charms decayed, Whether it was this pensive mood that created The... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...onset gave ! Sonnet. In the Pass of Killieranhy. A remnant of uneasy light. The Matron of Jedborough. But thou, that didst appear so fair To fond imagination,...Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. Yarrow Visited. Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great is passed... | |
 | Joseph Torrey - Aesthetics - 1874 - 316 pages
...actually reached, the relations and circumstances from 1 Winter's Ta'e, Act v. sc. iii. But thou who didst appear so fair To fond Imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. WORDSWORTH, " Yarrow Revisited." without which hinder or modify the working of that inward principle,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...by strength of sorrow, Th' unconquerable strength of love ; Bear witness, rueful Yarrow I But thon, that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost...day Her delicate creation : Meek loveliness is round thce spread, A softness still and holy ; The grace of forest charms decay'd. And pastoral melancholy.0... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1875 - 618 pages
...breathed balmily about it; the season was ID the " heart of June," and I could say with the poet, " But thou, that didst appear so fair ~ To fond imagination,...Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation !" Bridgets was more a waking bliss than mine, for she easily remembered her old acquaintance again... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Children's poetry, American - 1875 - 322 pages
...breathed balmily about it ; the season was in the " heart of June," and I could say with the poet, — But thou, that didst appear so fair To fond imagination,...Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation ! Journeying northward lately, I could not resist going some few miles out of my road to look upon... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...Sonnet in the Pass of Killicranty. A remnant of uneasy light The Matron of ycdborough. But tin MI. that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. Yarrow Visited. Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great is passed... | |
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