 tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. The birds around me hopped and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure: — But the least motion which they made It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch...  Littell's Living Age - Page 2821875Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 1798 - 240 pages
...Their thoughts I cannot measure, But the least motion which they made, It seem'da thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If I these thoughts may not prevent, If such be of my creed the plan, Have I not reason to lament What... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pages
...Their thoughts I cannot measure, But the least motion which they made, It seem'da thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If I these thoughts may not prevent, If such be of my creed the plan, Have I not reason to lament What... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pages
...Their thoughts I cannot measure, But the least motion which they made, It seem'da thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread' out their fan, To catch...breezy air ; And I must think, do all I can, That there wa* pleasure there. If I these thoughts may not prevent,. If such be of my creed the plan, Have I not... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...periwinkle trail'd its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. • 4 The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If I these thoughts may not .prevent, If such be of my creed the plan, Have I not reason to lament What... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...thoughts I cannot measure : — But the least motion which they made, It seem'da thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If I these thoughts may not prevent, If such be of my creed the plan, Have I not reason to lament What... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pages
...thoughts I cannot measure : — But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan. To catch the...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If I these thoughts may not prevent, If such be of my creed the plan, Have I not reason to lament What... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...thoughts I cannot measure : — But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If I these thoughts may not prevent, If such be of my creed the plan, Have I not reason to lament What... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...thoughts I cannot measure : — But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If I these thoughts may not prevent, If such be of my creed the plan, Have I not reason to lament What... | |
 | England - 1841 - 928 pages
...quotation : these are the closing verses : — " The^budding twigs spread out their fan To catch tho breeiy air ; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. " From Heaven if this brlief be sent, If this be Nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What... | |
 | Literature - 1825 - 412 pages
...the poetical faith of Wordsworth. Through primrose banks, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle twined its wreaths ; And 'tis my faith, that every flower...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. The appearance of this enlarged edition of L)r Bigelow's Plants of Boston, will be hailed with much... | |
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