 So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still, .and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief That passing shows of Being leave behind,...  Studies in Poetry and Philosophy - Page 98by John Campbell Shairp - 1872 - 399 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States - 1890 - 612 pages
...the high spear-grass on that wall, By mist and silent raindrops silvered o'er, did to my heart convey So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still,...change, and all the grief The passing shows of being left behind, Appeared an idle dream that could not live Where meditation was. / turned away And walked... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1892 - 390 pages
...on that wall, By mist and silent rain-drops silvered o'er, As once I passed, did to my heart convey So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still,...feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, arid all the grief The passing shows of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could not... | |
 | Emile Legouis - Poets, English - 1896 - 530 pages
...convey So still an image of tranquillity, Socalm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the.uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of...from change, and all the grief The passing shows of Beiog leave behind, Appearedan idledream, that could notlive Where meditation was. I turned away, And... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 648 pages
...that wall, By mist and silent rain-drops silvered o'er, As once I passed, into my heart conveyed 545 So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still,...despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief 55° That passing shows of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could maintain, Nowhere,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 656 pages
...that wall, By mist and silent rain-drops silvered o'er, As once I passed, into my heart conveyed 545 So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still,...despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief 55° That passing shows, of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could maintain, Nowhere,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 648 pages
...that wall, By mist and silent rain-drops silvered o'er, As once I passed, into my heart conveyed 545 Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That...despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief 55° That passing shows of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could maintain, Nowhere,... | |
 | Laurence Henry Schwab - Christian life - 1897 - 296 pages
...book of the " Excursion " we read how the wanderer's meditations at the deserted cottage taught him, " That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief That passing shows of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could maintain Nowhere, dominion... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - 1897 - 272 pages
...will unchecked, yet left to a more intimate vision so excelling a sense of final beauty and peace, " That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief That passing shows of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream." In Book ii., where the poet is led... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1898 - 668 pages
...on that wall, By mist and silent rain-drops silvered o'er, As once I passed, did to my heart convey So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still,...behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could not live 112 Where meditation was. I turned away, And walked along my road in happiness." He ceased. Ere long... | |
 | William Hale White - 1898 - 86 pages
...on that wall, By mist and silent rain-drops silver'd o'er, As once I passed, did to my heart convey So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still,...ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shews of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could not live Where meditation was. I turned... | |
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