 Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods And mountains, and of all that we behold From this green earth, of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create And what perceive ; well pleased to recognize In Nature and the...  Every Saturday: A Journal of Choice Reading - Page 211867Full view - About this book
 | Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 pages
...we behold Of eye and ear, both what they half create,* And what perceive; well pleased to recognise In Nature and the language of the sense, The anchor of my purest thoughts, the muse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being. Nor perchance, If I were... | |
 | Frederick Thompson Mott - Charnwood Forest (England) - 1868 - 172 pages
...world Of eye and ear, — both what they half create, And what perceive ; well pleased to recognise In nature and the language of the sense, The anchor...guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being. WORDSWORTH. — " Tintern Abbey." For complete details of the Natural History of Charnwood and its... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Sermons, English - 1868 - 378 pages
...mighty world ; Of eye and ear, both what they half create And what perceive ; well-pleased to recognise In nature and the language of the sense The anchor...guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.' * * Wordsworth's 'Ode on Tintern Abbey.' R 2 ' Of all my moral being.' Yes; of our moral being, our... | |
 | Gordon Mursell - Religion - 2001 - 604 pages
...mighty world Of eye, and ear, - both what they half create, And what perceive; well pleased to recognise In nature and the language of the sense The anchor...the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.51 It is vital to note the connections here between beauty and morality, between feelings and... | |
 | Emma Driver - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 150 pages
...youth. The real meaning in nature is now fully revealed and we find out what the speaker sees in God: The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide,...guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being. (109-11) Lines 111-59 The final section is addressed to a specific person — the speaker's sister.... | |
 | Leon Waldoff - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 192 pages
...Another indication of the psychological content of the intensity is the figuring of Nature as maternal, "the nurse, / The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul / Of all my moral being," and as a presence that "never did betray / The heart that loved her" (109— II, 122—23). When the... | |
 | Kristine S. Santilli - Gesture in literature - 2002 - 182 pages
...if they were the gestures of his own body. Wordsworth refers to this source of his personal being as "the anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, / The...guardian of my heart, and soul / Of all my moral being" t100-01). But when he sees "into the life of things" during his epiphanic return after five long years,... | |
 | Wilbert M. Gesler - Social Science - 2003 - 148 pages
...and mountains of the countryside. In Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tmtern Abbey, he wrote, "[I am] well pleased to recognize / In nature and the language...guardian of my heart and soul / Of all my moral being" (Wordsworth 1975, 41). Many people feel that they can attain physical, mental, and spiritual healing... | |
 | Richard Hayman - History - 2003 - 300 pages
...mighty world Of eye, and ear, both what they half create And what perceive; well pleased to recognise In nature and the language of the sense The anchor...the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.4 Wordsworth's use of authentic everyday language in Lyrical Ballads was an attempt to strip... | |
 | David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - Environmentalism - 2003 - 612 pages
...mighty world Of eye and ear - both what they half create. And what perceive; well pleased to recognise In nature and the language of the sense The anchor...the guardian of my heart and soul Of all my moral being.'8 Nature had become something we communed with, something we yearned for. Emphatically separate... | |
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