 I saw the hare that raced about with joy; I heard the woods and distant waters roar; Or heard them not, as happy as a boy: The pleasant season did my heart employ: My old remembrances went from me wholly; And all the ways of men, so vain and melancholy.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3201871Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pages
...sun, Runi with her all the way, wherever she doth run. I was a Traveller then upon the moor; I saw the Hare that raced about with joy; I heard the woods,...men, so vain and melancholy! But, as It sometimes chlnceth, from the might Of joy in minds that can no farther go. As high as we have mounted in delight... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 536 pages
...the fancy. I saw the hare that raced about with joy ; " I was a traveller then upon the moor: I heaid the woods and distant waters roar, Or heard them not, as happy as a boy; My old remembrances went from me wholly, The pleasant season did my heart employ : And all the ways... | |
 | Christopher Legge Lordan - 1843 - 224 pages
...Rejoicing! On the morning to which I have adverted, I had resigned myself to the Spirit of the Air, — " The pleasant season did my heart employ; My old remembrances...And all the ways of men, so vain and melancholy." Who has not smiled at his own locomotive irregularities, when governed by the impulses of an ecstasy... | |
 | Christopher Legge Lordan - 1844 - 294 pages
...Rejoicing! On the morning to which I have adverted, I had resigned myself to the Spirit of the Air, — " The pleasant season did my heart employ; My old remembrances...And all the ways of men, so vain and melancholy." Who has not smiled at his own locomotive irregularities, when governed by the impulses of an ecstasy... | |
 | 1871 - 860 pages
...sun, lluus with her all the way wherever she doth run I was a traveller then upon the moor, I saw the hare that raced about with joy; I heard the woods and distant waters roar, Or henrd them not, as happy as a boy; The pleasant season did my heart employ : My old remembrances went... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run. m. I was a Traveller then upon the moor I saw the hare that raced about with joy ; I heard the woods...; And all the ways of men, so vain and melancholy. IV. But, as it sometimes chanceth, from the might Of joy in minds that can no further go, As high as... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 pages
...Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run. in. I was a Traveller then upon the moor I saw the hare that raced about with joy ; I heard the woods...; And all the ways of men, so vain and melancholy. IV. But, as it sometimes chanceth, from the might Of joy in minde that can no further go, As high as... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run. I was a traveller then upon the moor ; I saw the hare that raced about with joy ; I heard the woods,...; And all the ways of men, so vain and melancholy! And fears, and fancies, thick upon me came ; Dim sadness — and blind thought, I knew not, nor could... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...sun, Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run. I was a Traveller then upon the moor; I saw the ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are...power Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart ; us it sometime chanccth, from the might Of joy in minds that can no further go, As high us we have... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 pages
...she doth run. WORDSWORTH'S DEVOTION TO POETRY. 65 " I was a traveller then upon the moor ; I saw the hare that raced about with joy ; I heard the woods...And all the ways of men, so vain and melancholy." Here we have not a syllable of redundancy. The scene is perfect in its picturesqueness and truth :... | |
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