 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
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...And Pity sanctifies the verse That paints, by strength of sorrow, The unconquerable strength of love; htiest lay broken near; And yet no sign or sound of...headsman's stroke With an uncover'd eye; A wild shout fr decay'd, And pastoral melancholy. That region left, the Vale unfolds Rich groves of lofty stature,... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...of love ; Bear witness, rueful Yarrow ! " But thin:, that didst appear so fulr To fond Imsginttion, of compliment : " "When Adam thus to Eve ; Fair consort,...approaches." " To whom thus Eve, with perfect beauty ador foreign charms decayed And piutoral melancholy." And why hast thou, wild singing spirit of the Highland... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - Scotland - 1904 - 466 pages
...every part of the surface, with a halo of legend, romance, and poetry. Meek loveliness is round it spread, A softness still and holy ; The grace of forest charms decayed And pastoral melancholy. The houses of Tibbie Shiels and Jenny of Birkhill showed the simplest and most rudimentary form of... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - Geology - 1905 - 380 pages
...Yarrow. Contrasting his first anticipation with what he found to be the reality, he addressed the vale : 'Thou, that didst appear so fair To fond imagination,...of forest charms decayed And pastoral melancholy.' On the influence of the upland scenery of southern Scotland upon the genius of Scott I must not enter.... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - Geology - 1905 - 380 pages
...anticipation with what he found to be the reality, he addressed the vale : 'Thou, that didst appear so fa1r Xo fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her...of forest charms decayed And pastoral melancholy.' On the influence of the upland scenery of southern Scotland upon the genius of Scott I must not enter.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1905 - 536 pages
...number of the London Magazine, in which he quoted a stanza from Wordsworth's " Yarrow Visited " :— But thou, that didst appear so fair To fond imagination,...Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. Here should come a scrap from Lamb to Ayrton, dated July 17, 1821, referring to the Coronation. Lamb... | |
 | English poetry - 1907 - 252 pages
...And pity sanctifies the verse That paints, by strength of sorrow, The unconquerable strength of love; Bear witness, rueful Yarrow ! But thou that didst...delicate creation: Meek loveliness is round thee spread, The grace of forest charms decayed, And pastoral melancholy. That region left, the vale unfolds Rich... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1907 - 814 pages
...balmily about it; the season was in the " henrt of June," and I could say with the poet, But them, that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation ! Bridget's was more a waking bliss than mine, for she easily remembered her old acquaintance again—some... | |
 | 1908 - 376 pages
...strength of sorrow, The unconquerable strength of love ; Bear witness, rueful Yarrow ! Yarrow Visited 291 But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination...softness still and holy : The grace of forest charms decay'd, And pastoral melancholy. That region left, the vale unfolds Rich groves of lofty stature,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1908 - 586 pages
...paints, by strength of sorrow, The unconquerable strength of love; Bear witness, rueful Yarrow ! 40 But thou, that didst appear so fair To fond imagination,...loveliness is round thee spread, A softness still and holy j The grace of forest charms decayed, And pastoral melancholy. That region left, the vale unfolds Rich... | |
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