...birds, And labourers going forth to till the fields. Ah ! need I say, dear Friend ! that to the brim My heart was full ; I made no vows, but vows Were...walked In thankful blessedness, which yet survives." 1 Soon Esthwaite Water, beyond its green tumbled hills and grassy moraine mounds, gleams white in mid-valley,...

...begun that poetic career which a sunset was to close : "Ah ! need I say, dear Friend, that to the brim My heart was full ; I made no vows, but vows Were...should be, else sinning greatly, A dedicated Spirit." His second long vacation brought him a further gain in human affections. Ilis sister, of whom he had...

...birds, And labonrers going forth to till the fields. Ah ! need I say, dear Friend ! that to the bnm My heart was full ; I made no vows, but vows Were...then made for me ; bond unknown to me Was given, that l should be, else sinning greatly, A dedicated Spirit. On I walked In thankful blessedness, which yet...

...birds, And labourers suing forth to till the fields. Ah! need I say, dear Friend! that to the brim My heart was full ; I made no vows, but vows Were...then made for me ; bond unknown to me Was given, that 1 should be, else sinning greatly, A dedicated Spirit. On I walked [DEFILE OF GOXDO.] The brook and...

...Dews, vapours, and the melody of birds, And labourers going forth to till the fields. . . To the brim My heart was full ; I made no vows, but vows Were...walked In thankful blessedness which yet survives. — The Prelude. Book I V. IX. WHAT want we ? Have we not perpetual streams, Warm woods and sunny hills,...

...birds, And labourers going forth to till the fields. Ah ! need I say, dear Friend! that to the brim My heart was full; I made no vows, but vows Were then...walked In thankful blessedness, which yet survives. Wordsworth's first long poem, An Evening Walk, 1789, shows the spirit of nature striving against the...

...Dews, vapours, and the melody of birds. And labourers going forth to till the fields. . . To the brim My heart was full; I made no vows, but vows Were then...walked In thankful blessedness which yet survives. IX. — The Prelude. Book IV. Admonishing the man who walks below Of solitude and silence in the sky?...

...of birds, And laborers going forth to till the f1elds. Ah, need I say, dear friend, that to the brim My heart was full? I made no vows, but vows Were then...should be, else sinning greatly, A dedicated spirit. And as a dedicated spirit he gave himself to his life-long work. Then what this work was let us consider....

...night's dance and rural festivity, when the dawn rose before him in " memorable pomp," he tells us — " My heart was full ; I made no vows, but vows Were...should be, else sinning greatly, A dedicated Spirit." Wordsworth, to sum up what I have said, seems to me to stand in two great relations to thought —...

...Wordsworth actually regarded himself as consecrated to his special work. He sings in " The Prelude " : — I made no vows, But vows were then made for me : bond to me Was given that I should be, else sinning greatly, A dedicated spirit ; and a dedicated spirit...