 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...misty mountain winds be free To blow against thee : and. in after years, When these wild eestasies shall be matured Into a sober pleasure, when thy mind...be a mansion for all lovely forms, Thy memory be as n dwelling-place For all sweet sounds and harmonies ; oh ! then, If solitude, or fear, or pain, or... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1880 - 354 pages
...matured Into a soher pleasure, when thy mind Shall he a mansion for all lovely forms, Thy memory he as a dwelling-place For all sweet sounds and harmonies...then, If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief, Should he thy portion, with what healing thoughts Of tender joy wilt thou rememher me, And these my exhortations!... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 824 pages
...And let the misty mountain winds be free To blow against thec : and in after years, When these \\ild ecstasies shall be matured Into a sober pleasure, when thy mind Shall IK- (i mansion for all lovely forms, Thy memory be us a dwell ing-place For .'ill sweet pounds and... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 452 pages
...which in the preceding paragraph had referred to his past visit, now refer to her conjectured future. "Oh! then, / If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief, / Should be thy portion. . . ." But such sufferings, though expressed as conditional, are for all lives inescapable. And if... | |
 | Michael Macovski - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 244 pages
...the present interchange (149, 155), that she will echo and respond to his vocal "exhortations": . . . thy mind Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms,...dwelling-place For all sweet sounds and harmonies; . . . . . . with what healing thoughts Of tender joy wilt thou remember me, And these my exhortations!... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...Therefore let the moon Shine on thee in thy solitary walk; And let the misty mountain-winds be free To blow against thee: and, in after years, When these...shall be matured Into a sober pleasure; when thy mind 140 Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms, Thy memory be as a dwelling-place For all sweet sounds... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...Therefore let the moon Shine on thee in thy solitary walk; And let the misty mountain-winds be free To blow against thee: and, in after years. When these...thy mind Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms, 14n Thy memory be as a dwelling-place For all sweet sounds and harmonies; oh! then, If solitude, or... | |
 | Stephen Adams - Poetry - 1997 - 260 pages
...Therefore || let the moon shine on thee in thy solitary walk; and ĦI let the misty mountain winds be free to blow against thee: And in after years, || when...mansion for all lovely forms, || thy memory be as a dwelling place for all sweet sounds and harmonies: Oh! then if || solitude, Ħj or fear, || or pain,... | |
 | John Rieder - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 284 pages
..."music of humanity," he stresses her ability to preserve and make permanent her present pleasures: "... thy mind / Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms,...dwellingplace / For all sweet sounds and harmonies." Dorothy's maturation justifies William's earlier hope for "life and food / For future years" by establishing... | |
 | David Bromwich - History - 2000 - 204 pages
...comfort. Again, once he has drawn from her "the language of my former heart," he wonders what will happen "If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief, / Should be thy portion." By wondering at all, in this pattern of transference, he does again seem to think these ills into being.... | |
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Into a sober pleasure ; when thy mind Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms, Thy memory be as a dwelling-place For all sweet sounds and harmonies... 
