 She whispered still that brightness would return, She, in the midst of all, preserved me still A Poet, made me seek beneath that name, And that alone, my office upon earth...  The Athenaeum - Seite 411874Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edmund Lee - 1887 - 240 Seiten
...for, though bedimmed and changed Much, as it seemed, I was no further changed Than as a clouded, and a waning moon; She whispered still that brightness...that name, And that alone, my office upon earth." We thus find Miss Wordsworth keeping house with her brother, who, having at length determined upon... | |
 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1887 - 248 Seiten
...never lost through many a league — • Maintained for me a saving intercourse With my true self .... She whispered still that brightness would return,...that name, And that alone, my office upon earth.' •-•Ji CHAPTER III. ' An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,... | |
 | 1891 - 624 Seiten
...sister in whose sight These days were passed . . . Whispered that brightness would return. She i'i the midst of all preserved me still A poet, made me...beneath that name, And that alone, my office upon earth. About this time, Wordsworth, finding his money gone and his belief shaken, gave up all hopes of church... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1889 - 450 Seiten
...despondency, and, (as he put it,) " Maintained for me a saving intercourse ; .- -, With my true self ; She whispered still that brightness would return,...••' .-'.. And that alone, my office upon earth." * Elsewhere he writes of her — " Her voice was like a hidden brook that sang ; The thought of her... | |
 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1892 - 270 Seiten
...never lost through many a league — Maintained for me a saving intercourse With my true self ; . . . . She whispered still that brightness would return,...that name, And that alone, my office upon earth.' CHAPTER III. ' An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1893 - 454 Seiten
...self ; for, though bedimmed and changed turn, She whispered still that brightness would return, 345 She, in the midst of all preserved me still A Poet,...beneath that name, And that alone, my office upon earth ; And, lastly, as hereafter will be shown, If willing audience fail not, Nature's self, 350 By all... | |
 | Frederick Henry Sykes - 1895 - 690 Seiten
...flagged, in the moments of literary aspiration she was by his side with sympathetic heart and equal mind. She whispered still that brightness would return,...beneath that name, And that alone, my office upon earth. She gave me eyes, she gave me cars; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1896 - 432 Seiten
...hidden Bird that sang ; The thought of her was like a flash of light, Or an unseen companionship. ED. A Poet, made me seek beneath that name, And that alone, my office upon earth ; And, lastly, as hereafter will be shown, If willing audience fail not, Nature's self, 350 By all... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1897 - 572 Seiten
...for though bedimmed and changed Much, as it seemed, I was no further changed Than as a clouded and a waning moon : She whispered still that brightness...beneath that name, And that alone, my office upon earth. Coleridge too must be mentioned, because he contributed to Wordsworth an element of ideality which... | |
 | John Milton - 1898 - 358 Seiten
...which he was enabled to continue a life of plain living and high thinking with his noble sister— " She, in the midst of all, preserved me still A Poet,...that name, And that alone, my office upon earth." The event was the death of his young friend and admirer, Raisley Calvert, who left him £900. Calvert!... | |
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