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" Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit;... "
New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 157
1860
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Gems of English Poetry: With Illustrations by Great Artists

English poetry - English poetry - 1865 - 398 pages
...his own sorrow) — he and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit ; Poet who hath been building up...limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moon-light to the influxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements NATURE. Surrendering his whole...
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Beauties of Modern British Poetry: Systematically Arranged ...

David Grant - English poetry - 1865 - 428 pages
...Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain : And many a poet echoes the conceit : Poet who hath been building up...limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moonlight, to the influxes Of shapes, and sounds, and shifting elements Surrendering his whole spirit,...
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Woodland and Wild: A Selection of Descriptive Poetry

Woodland - Animals - 1868 - 186 pages
...Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit ; Poet who hath been building up...limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moonlight, to the influxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements Surrendering his whole spirit,...
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Christabel and the Lyrical and Imaginative Poems of S.T. Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1869 - 204 pages
...Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit ; Poet who hath been building up...far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest- dell, By sun or moon-light, to the influxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements Surrendering...
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The beauties of modern British poetry, systematically arranged by ..., Issue 240

David Grant (of Aberdeen) - 1871 - 478 pages
...Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain : And many a poet echoes the conceit : Poet who hath been building up...far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest- dell, By sun or moonlight, to the influxes Of shapes, and sounds, and shifting elements Surrendering...
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The Student's Treasury of English Song ...

William Henry Davenport Adams - Poetry - 1873 - 552 pages
...named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit ; y u Q X J 8 S 6 3 en i £ j Poet who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Q Z 1 Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moonlight, to the influxes Of shapes and sounds...
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Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...his own sorrow) — he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe ! And, ever and anon, he beat The stretch'd his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By son or moonlight ; to the influxes Of shapes,...
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 470 pages
...Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain : And many a poet echoes the conceit ; Poet who hath been building up...limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By Sun or Moon-light, to the influxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements Surrendering his whole spirit,...
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Theology in the English Poets: Cowper, Coleridge, Wordsworth and Burns

Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1874 - 396 pages
...echoing the thought of the sorrow-stricken man, calls the nightingale a melancholy bird. He is one Who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better...far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest dell ; By sun or moonlight to the influxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements Surrendering...
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Theology in the English Poets: Cowper--Coleridge--Wordsworth and Burns

Stopford Augustus Brooke - Literary Criticism - 1875 - 374 pages
...echoing the thought of the sorrow-stricken man, calls the nightingale a melancholy bird. He is one Who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better...far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest dell; By sun or moonlight to the influxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting elements Surrendering...
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