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" twas my joy With store of springes o'er my shoulder hung To range the open heights where woodcocks run Among the smooth green turf. Through half the night, Scudding away from snare to snare, I plied That anxious visitation; — moon and stars Were shining... "
Winged Words on Chantrey's Woodcocks - Page xxiii
edited by - 1857 - 120 pages
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The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem

William Wordsworth - 1850 - 406 pages
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The American Whig Review, Volumes 13-14

1851 - 1220 pages
...to sport. A naked savage, in the thunder shower." Ere he had "told ten birth-days," it was his joy " To range the open heights where woodcocks run Along the smooth green turf." One does not readily think that woodcocks are the most poetical objects at which " the young idea"...
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Winged Words on Chantrey's Woodcocks

James Patrick Muirhead - 1857 - 230 pages
...description given by the great Poet of the Lakes of his favourite boyish sport : — " Ere I had told " Ten birth-days, when among the mountain-slopes " Frost,...woodcocks run " Along the smooth green turf. Through balf the night, <: Scudding away from snare to snare, I plied '• That anxious visitation; — moon...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ...

William Wordsworth - 1859 - 432 pages
...mountain slopes Frost, and the breath of frosty wind, had snapped The last autumnal crocus, 't was my joy, With store of springes o'er my shoulder hung, To range the open heights where woodcocks rup Along the smooth green turf. Through half the night, Scudding away from snare to snare, I plied...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 12

Henry Allon - 1850 - 632 pages
...told Ten birth-days, when among the mountain slopes Frost, and the breath of frosty wind, had snapped The last autumnal crocus, 'twas my joy With store...smooth green turf. Through half the night, Scudding from snare to snare, I plied That anxious visitation ; — moon and stars "Were shining o'er my head....
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The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 pages
...the breath of frosty wind, had snapped The last autumnal crocus, 'twas my joy With store of springe* o'er my shoulder hung To range the open heights where...run Along the smooth green turf. Through half the . '•» il ' night, Scudding away from snare to snare, Implied « u ; i That anxious visitation;—moon...
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The poetical works of William Wordsworth. New and ..., Issue 619, Volume 5

William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 382 pages
...told Ten birth-days, when among the mountain slopes Frost, and the breath of frosty wind, had snapped The last autumnal crocus, 'twas my joy With store...Along the smooth green turf. Through half the night, S mdding away from snare to snare, I plied That anxious visitation ; — moon and stars Were shining...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1871 - 630 pages
...told Ten birth-days, when among the mountain slopes Frost, and the breath of frosty wind, had snapped The last autumnal crocus, 'twas my joy With store...half the night. Scudding away from snare to snare, 1 plied That anxious visitation ; — moon and stars Were shining o'er my head. I was alone, And seemed...
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The poetical works of William Wordsworth, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M ...

William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 644 pages
...among the mountain slopes Frost, and the hreath of frosty wind, had snapped The last autumnal erocus, 'twas my joy With store of springes o'er my shoulder hung To range the open heights where woodeocks run Along the smooth green turf. Through half the . ^! I , Sendding away from snare to snare,...
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The Poetical Works of Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 pages
...told Ten birth-days, when among the mountain slopes Frost, and the breath of frosty wind, had snapped The last autumnal crocus, 'twas my joy With store...shoulder hung To range the open heights where woodcocks Along the smooth green turf. Through hal the mght, Scudding away from snare to snare, I plied That...
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