 The innocent brightness of a new-born day Is lovely yet; The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won.  The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly - Page 6edited by - 1838Full view - About this book
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...more habitual sway; I love the brooks which down their channels fret 'Even more than when I tripp'd lightly as they ; The innocent brightness of a new-born...yet; The clouds that gather round the setting sun l)o take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1870 - 236 pages
...relinquimed one delight, To live beneath your more habitual fway. I love the brooks, which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lightly as they ; The innocent brightnefs of a new-born day Is lovely yet ; The clouds that gather round the fetting fun Do take a... | |
 | Celeste Marguerite Schenck - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 248 pages
...east / Must travel," follows a similar course. Here is the Ode's version of the Miltonic close: 14 The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. (1I. 197-200) A difference in tone can be discerned between these two passages: Milton's Hnal vision—that... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 452 pages
...sunset that is effected by a matured mind in terms of a sober coloring projected on the visual radiance: The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. In a parallel way in "Tintern Abbey"... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind. (1. 185—186) 86 string with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming (1. 194-197) 87 To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 396 pages
...times 'Mont Blanc"s impressions of eternity seem to intimate the absence of a Wordsworthian vision: The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality (IO, 199-201) the snows flakes fall deseend Upon that mountain - none beholds them there Nor when the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...relinquished one delight To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lightly...an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; 200 Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - Politics and literature - 1994 - 452 pages
...spoke of "sober," maturing experiences that alter our youthful perspective. In the Intimations ode, The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. This, the "eye" of an anything but neutral or "ignorant" man, reports no purely independent objective... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...relinquished one delight To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret. Even more than when I tripped lightly as they; The innocent brightness of a new-bom Day Is lovely yet; The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from... | |
 | Harold C. Raley - Philosophy - 1997 - 300 pages
...TO A NEW PHILOSOPHY In the faith that looks through death. In years that bring the philosophic mind. The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. —Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality In 1973-74, I wrote Responsible Vision: The Philosophy of... | |
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