 Sons, mothers, maidens withering on the stalk; These all wear out of me, like forms with chalk Painted on rich men's floors for one feast-night. Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long, barren silence, square with my desire ; To sit without...  English Men of Letters - Pagina 56a cura di - 1894Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pagine
...silence, square with my desire; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, By my half-kitchen my half-parlour fire. And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle, whispering it's faint undersong. 119 " Yet life," you say, " is life ; we have seen and see. And with a living... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pagine
...silence, square with my desire ; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, By my half-kitchen my half-parlour fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle, whispering it's faint undersong. " Yet life," you say, " is life ; we have seen and see, And with a living pleasure... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagine
...square with my desire ; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, In the lov'd presence of my cottage-fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle, whispering its faint undersong. " Yet life," you say, " is life ; we have seen and see, And with a living pleasure we describe; And... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagine
...square with my desire ; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, In the lov'd presence of my cottage-fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle, whispering its faint undersong. 139 " Yet life," you say, " is life ; we have seen and see, And with a living pleasure we describe;... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 pagine
...square with my desire ; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, In the loved presence of my cottage-fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle, whispering its faint undersong. XXII. cONTINUED. " YET life," you say, " is life; we have seen and see, And with a living pleasure... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pagine
...square with my desire ; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, In the loved presence of my cottage-fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle whispering its faint undersong. XXXIX. CONTINUED. "¥ET life," you say, " is life ; we have seen and see, And with a living pleasure... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1899 - 308 pagine
...square with my desire ; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, In the loved presence of my cottage-fire, And listen to the flapping of the flame, Or kettle whispering its faint undersong. Personal " YET life," you say, " is life ; we have seen and see, Talk And with a living pleasure we... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pagine
...desire; To sit without emotion, hope, or aim, In the lov'd presence of my cottage-fire, And I], i, -ii "Vet life," you say, "is life ; we have seen and see, And with a living pleasure we describe ; And... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 536 pagine
...stalk— These all wear out of me like forms with chalk Painted on rich men's floors, for one feast night. Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long...flame, Or kettle whispering its faint under-song." How could the world regard, but with disgust, a man who, while war was raging abroad, and revolutionary... | |
 | Johnstone - 1840 - 386 pagine
...These all wear out of me, like forms with chalk Painted on rich men's floors, for one feast night. Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long...flame, Or kettle whispering its faint under-song." I believe there are some still so vulgar as to think it a vulgar thing to mention a kettle in a poem,... | |
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