 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
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1891 - 408 pages
...grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is pass'd away. W. Wordsworth LONDON, 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 the... | |
 | Hiram Corson - English language - 1892 - 248 pages
...sonnet into another, and the effect is often good. It is so in this sonnet addressed to Coleridge : 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1892 - 374 pages
...rocky shore, And neither awful Voice be heard by thee ! VII. — WRITTEN IN LONDON, SEPTEMBER 1801. O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think th.it now our Life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1893 - 546 pages
...houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still \ 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 handiwork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the open... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1894 - 404 pages
...even the shade Of that which once was great is pass'd away. W. Wordsworth LONDON, 1802 O P'riend ! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being,...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... | |
 | Samuel Thurber - Abstracting - 1924 - 172 pages
...godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. — WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 153 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, 152 In the open sunshine, or we are unblest; The wealthiest... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1927 - 734 pages
...said that by the soul Only, the Nations shall be great and free. WRITTEN IN LONDON, SEPTEMBER 1802 * O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, opprest, 1 Among the capricious acts of tyranny that disgraced those times, was the chasing of all Negroes from... | |
 | William Henry Irving - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 508 pages
...folks awake, he was disturbed. It may be that his memories of revolutionary Paris were too recent. O Friend! I know not which way I must look For comfort,...shew; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! Wordsworth could also feel the tears of things as they touched human existence, and the little poem... | |
 | Arthur Beatty - English poetry - 1928 - 582 pages
...rocky shore, And neither awful Voice be heard by thee ! 1807. 1807 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 VFor show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook,'' Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a brook... | |
 | Great Britain. Scottish Education Dept - 1896 - 642 pages
...with Robinson Crusoe. 2. Paraphrase the following poem, so as to bring out the fulll meaning : — 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 handiwork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a brook In the... | |
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