 | 856 pages
...awful and less exclusively divine than that of the prophet, yet will not allow him to keep silent. " Was it for this That one, the fairest of all rivers, loved To blend his murmurs with my muse's song, VOL. XI. G And, from his alder shades and rocky falls, And from his fords and shallows,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1850 - 412 pages
...travelling toward the grave. Like a false steward who hath much received And renders nothing back. Was it for this That one, the fairest of all rivers,...shallows, sent a voice That flowed along my dreams? For this, didst thnu, O Derwcnt I winding among grassy holms Where I was looking on, a babe in arms,... | |
 | University magazine - 1851 - 796 pages
...in his own powers, till there seemed to him danger that life would pass away in mere listlessness. " Was it for this That one, the fairest of all rivers,...shallows, sent a voice That flowed along my dreams ? For this, didst thon, O, Derwent ! winding among grassy holms, Where I was looking on, a babe in... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...steward who hath much received ', And renders nothing back. Was it for this I That one, the filircst of all rivers, loved To blend his murmurs with my...shallows, sent a voice That flowed along my dreams? For this, didst thou. O Derwent! winding among grassy holms Where I was looking on, a babe in arms,... | |
 | 1851 - 778 pages
...life ther some fault in the subject chosen, would past away in mere listlessness. " Was it for tliis That one, the fairest of all rivers, loved To blend...nurse's song, And from his alder shades and rocky falls, Anil from his fords and shallows, sent a voice That flowed along my dreams ? For this, didst tliou,... | |
 | 1851 - 518 pages
...impotence, how subtly and gracefully does he make a beginning for the story of his mental life ! " Was it for this That one, the fairest of all rivers,...blend his murmurs with my nurse's song, And from his alder-shades and rocky falls, And from his fords and shallows, sent a voice That flowed along my dreams... | |
 | 1851 - 838 pages
...in his own powers, till there seemed to him danger that life would pass away in mere listlcssness. " Was it for this That one, the fairest of all rivers,...blend his murmurs with my nurse's song, And from his nlilcr shades and rocky falls, And from his fords and shallows, sent a voice That flowed along my dreams... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 492 pages
...Cockennouth stands, are very picturesque. The Poet bears testimony to its workings upon him, when he says, " One, the fairest of all rivers, loved To blend his murmurs with my nurse's song, And from his fords and shallows sent a voice That flowed along my dreams." 1 And the old baronial castle, near which... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 488 pages
...Cockermouth stands, are very picturesque. The Poet bears testimony to its workings upon him, when he says, " One, the fairest of all rivers, loved To blend his murmurs with my nurse's song, And from his fords and shallows sent a voice That flowed along my dreams." ' And the old baronial castle, near which... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 524 pages
...Cockermouth stands, are very picturesque. The Poet bears testimony to its workings upon him, when he says, And from his fords and shallows sent a voice That flowed along my dreams.' ' And the old baronial castle, near which it flows, was not without its influence. When the Derwent... | |
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Was it for this That one, the fairest of all rivers, loved To blend his murmurs with my nurse's song, And, from his alder shades and rocky falls, And from his fords and shallows, sent a voice That flowed along my dreams? 
