...possessing in itself a healing power. Thus, in Tintern Abbey, Wordsworth says that it bestows upon us that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery,...In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, die breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are...

...a moment of new awareness or recognition. Nor less, I trust, To them I may have owed another £ift, Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which...world, Is lightened: — that serene and blessed mood, o In which the affections gently lead us on, — Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even...

...lightened, lightened blessedly as it did once for William Wordsworth a few miles above Tintern Abbey: that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery,...weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lighten'd. Perhaps simply as I grow older will come awareness and some wisdom. This unintelligible...

...of fractured relationships. The past plays the role of a restorative nature, capable of bringing on 'that blessed mood,/ In which the burthen of the mystery,/ In which the heavy and the weary weight/ Of all this unintelligible world/is lightened' ('Tintern Abbey' ll.37-41). It is perhaps not accidental...

...timelessness, the cry of the muezzin. Suddenly I remembered Wordsworth: that blessed moment In which the burden of the mystery In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lightened And when I turned the others were looking at me, as if expecting some pronouncement. We walked down...

...life; His litde, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Nor less, I trust, To them 1 may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime;...burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight 40 Of all this unintelligible world Is lighten'd: - that serene and blessed mood. In which the...

...(Keats Letters i 28i) he was misquoting the poem, which says nothing about a 'burden'. The lines run, that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery,...weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lightened ... <38-42) Even supposing that there is indeed a punning acquaintance between 'burden' and 'Bourdon',...

...sublime" human faculty in which we cannot fail to recognize what Blake called the Poetic Character: that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery,...the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world Is lighten'd:— that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath...

...hierarchy or valuation apparently is unsatisfying to the poet, and several lines later he begins again: To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more...weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened:—69 Like the ineffectual crossings-out seen in the negative constructions above, the kinetics...

...attentiveness to the natural world that Wordsworth's poetry claims can, even in its recollection, create a 'blessed mood, / In which the burthen of the mystery,...Of all this unintelligible world, / Is lightened' ('Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey', 38-42). Imaginative creativity is undertaken in the...