 O Friend! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our Life is only drest For show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom!— We must run glittering like a Brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest:...  Poems Dedicated to National Independence and Liberty - Page 39by William Wordsworth - 1897 - 96 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 384 pages
...of the poems I shall read this evening were written. I believe it was written to Coleridge. " Oh ! friend, I know not which way I must look For comfort,...think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine,... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - Literature, Modern - 1858 - 584 pages
...world. Well has Wordsworth painted the condition of a people arrived at this period of their history — "O! Friend! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being as I am, opprest To think that nowour life is only drest ' For show ; mean handiwork of craftsman, cook , Or groom ; — we must run... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...from his rocky shore, And neither awful voice be heard by thee ! WRITTEN Iir LONDON, SEPTEMEBn, 1802. O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, oppress'd To think that now our life is only dress'd For show ; mean handiwork of craftsman, cook,... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1858 - 1096 pages
...multiplies our redundant verbs, and greatly embarrasses what it seems at first to simplify: as, " 0 friend 1 I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, opjtrtit, To think that now our life is only drest For show." — Wordsworth's Poetical Works, 8vo,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Bookbinding - 1858 - 550 pages
...rocky shore, And neither awful voice bo heard by thee ! VEITTEK Ilf LONDOX, SEPTEMBER 1802. 0 FEIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, oppress'd To think that now our life is only dress* d For show; moan handiwork of craftsman, cook,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...his rocky shore, Aud neither awful voice be heard by thee! XIII. WRITTEN IN LONDON, SEPTEMBER 1802. O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, oppressed To think that now our life is only dressed For show ; mean handiwork of craftsman, cook.... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...when even the shade Of that which once was great has pass'd away. W. Wordsworth ccxn LONDON, MDCCCII O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort,...think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handiwork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine,... | |
 | 1863 - 624 pages
...best spirits of this century has poured itself forth : — " O thou proud City ! which way shall I look For comfort, being, as I am, opprest To think that now our life is only drest For show, mean handiwork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ? We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 318 pages
...exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind. LXXXV WRITTEN IN LONDON, SEPTEMBER, l8o2 O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort,...think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1865 - 316 pages
...exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind. LXXXV WRITTEN IN LONDON, SEPTEMBER, 1802 O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort,...think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine,... | |
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