 He with a smile did then his words repeat ; And said, that gathering leeches, far and wide He travelled ; stirring thus about his feet The waters of the pools where they abide. " Once I could meet with them on every side, But they have dwindled long by...  The Living Age - Page 961912Full view - About this book
 | Hendrik Roelof Rookmaaker - 1984 - 232 pages
...the leech-gatherer directly recorded in the poem. Referring to leeches, he says, 'Once I could meet them on every side; But they have dwindled long by...Yet still I persevere, and find them where I may'. (11. 124-126) Like Wordsworth, and by implication Coleridge, the leech-gatherer acknowledges a significant... | |
 | L. J. Swingle - 1990 - 318 pages
...Independence, devoted to the gathering of leeches, whether there be leeches in the world to gather or not: "they have dwindled long by slow decay; / Yet still I persevere, and find them where I may" (125-26). There is an obvious line of continuity stretching between the Romantic Wordsworth who creates... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...leeches, far and wide He travelled; stirring thus about his feet The waters of the pools where they abide. 'Once I could meet with them on every side; But they...Yet still I persevere, and find them where I may.' XIX While he was talking thus, the lonely place, The old Man's shape, and speech - all troubled me:... | |
 | Gary Lee Harrison - 1994 - 250 pages
...and labour" press upon him? To persevere in the face of possible misery and failure: "[the leeches] have dwindled long by slow decay; / Yet still I persevere, and find them where I may" (122, 132-33; Poems 128-29). Ironically the narrator, who has long lived life as a lark — "My whole... | |
 | Seamus Perry - 1999 - 330 pages
...leeches far and wide He travelled; stirring thus about his feet The waters of the ponds where they abide. "Once I could meet with them on every side, But they...Yet still I persevere, and find them where I may.' While he was talking thus, the lonely place, The old man's shape, and speech, all troubled me: In my... | |
 | John Janovy - 2001 - 318 pages
...leeches, far and wide He travelled; stirring thus about his feet The waters of the pools where they abide. "Once I could meet with them on every side; But they...Yet still I persevere, and find them where I may." The slow death of expertise in basic leech biology and natural history is little different from that... | |
 | Leon Waldoff - 2001 - 192 pages
...is it you do?" [119]), and a single response from the Leech-gatherer about the scarcity of leeches ("Once I could meet with them on every side; / But...Yet still I persevere, and find them where I may" [124—26]). The speaker tells us that the Leechgatherer said much more than is revealed in this single... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 356 pages
...leeches, far and wide He travelled; stirring thus about his feet The waters of the pools where they abide. 'Once I could meet with them on every side; But they...Yet still I persevere, and find them where I may.' 19 While he was talking thus, the lonely place, ( The old Man's shape, and speech - all troubled me:... | |
 | Robert Blaisdell - 2003 - 116 pages
...leeches, far and wide He travelled; stirring thus above his feet The waters of the pools where they abide. "Once I could meet with them on every side; But they...Yet still I persevere, and find them where I may." XIX While he was talking thus, the lonely place, 'I"he old Man's shape, and speech— all troubled... | |
 | 張錯 - 2005 - 360 pages
...leeches, far and wide He travelled; stirring thus about his feet The waters of the pools where they abide. "Once I could meet with them on every side; But they...Yet still I persevere, and find them where I may." 我急切地再次詢問: 「 您究竟以何為生， 幹哪種活? 」 他笑著反復訴說 他是個四處雲遊... | |
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