The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms were then to me An appetite: a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor... New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 532edited by - 1823Full view - About this book
| American fiction - 1904 - 550 pages
...Referring to the time when Nature was all and all to him, he says : I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms, were then to me An appetite. This poem, among the first of his great poems,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1892 - 390 pages
...their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. — I cannot paint 1 > What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, f Their colours and their forms, were then to me That had no need of a remoter charm,... | |
| Almon Gunnison - 1893 - 252 pages
...But her ordinary life was not made unattractive by her larger splendors, and though he said : — " The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ;...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms, were then to me An appetite." Yet so does love, like the sea, fill places infinitely... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 pages
...And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ;...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms, were then to me So An appetite, a feeling and a love, That had no need of a... | |
| 1894 - 752 pages
...gone by — To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted ine like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms were then to me An appetite, a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter... | |
| 1925 - 584 pages
...revealed. It is to poets and lovers T"f ~ of nature like Words worth that her secrets are made known. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love CALYPSO BULBOSA THIS ORCHID,... | |
| William Gee - Physical geography - 1895 - 340 pages
...exposed), then at Buxton the pressure upon him would be reduced by half a ton. m SCENERY AND ITS CAUSES " The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep gloomy wood : Their colours, and their forms have been to me An appetite." Early How soon primitive... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 618 pages
...And their glad animal movements, all gone by) To me was all in all: I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood. Their colors and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter... | |
| Theology - 1881 - 666 pages
...And their glad animal movements all gone by,) To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ;...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms were then to me An appetite, a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter... | |
| Augustus Hopkins Strong - Poetry - 1897 - 572 pages
...was not always thus, however : For nature then To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter... | |
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