 O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest...  The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth - Page 217by William Wordsworth - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Plymouth athenaeum - 1874 - 622 pages
...years of what is called progress, these verses remain as true as when they were first written — " 0 friend ! I know not which way I must look For comfort,...I am, opprest, To think that now our life is only drcst For show ; mean handywork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook... | |
 | T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874 - 492 pages
...from his rocky shore, And neither awful voice be heard by thee ! Written in London, September, 1802. O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, oppress'd To think that now our life is only dress'd For show ; mean handiwork of craftsman, cook,... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pages
...natural beauty, and commuuion with nature, less noteworthy. He died in 1890, at the age of SO. O PEIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, oppressed, To think that now our life is only dressed For show ; mean handiwork of craftsman, cook,... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Literary Criticism - 1875 - 374 pages
...necessity of the opposite qualities for the greatness of a people. WRITTEN IN LONDON, SEPTEMBER, 1S02. 0 Friend ! I know not which way I must look For comfort,...opprest, To think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsmen, cook, Or groom !—We must run glittering like a brook In the... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...his rocky shore, And neither awful Voice be heard by thee ! " WRITTEN' IN LONDON, SEPTEMBER, 1802. 0 FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort,...opprest, To think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In th' open... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - Criticism - 1876 - 368 pages
...of the poems I shall read this evening were written. I believe it was written to Coleridge. ' ' Oh ! friend, I know not which way I must look For comfort,...opprest To think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy- work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a brook In the... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1877 - 478 pages
...thunder as before, And Ocean bellow from his rocky shore, And neither awful Voice be heard by thee ! 0 FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort,...opprest, To think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handiwork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In th' open... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1878 - 246 pages
...half of a sonnet addressed to Coleridge in 1802, give rhythmical utterance to this feeling: — " Oh, friend ! I know not which way I must look For comfort,...opprest To think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handwork of craftsman, cook. Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the open... | |
 | sir Walter Besant - 1878 - 334 pages
...Wordsworth! Why," she looked among the sonnets, "this must have been written especially for me. Listen : " ' O Friend ! I know not which way I must look For comfort,...as I am, opprest To think that now our life is only dressed For show .... The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone : our peace, our fearful innocence... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 390 pages
...rocky shore, And neither awful Voice be heard by thee ! VII. — WRITTEN IN LONDON, SEPTEMBER 1802. O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort,...opprest, To think that now our Life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a Brook In the... | |
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