 THERE is a change — and I am poor; Your Love hath been, nor long ago, A Fountain at my fond Heart's door, Whose only business was to flow; And flow it did; not taking heed Of its own bounty, or my need.  The Living Age - Page 3961895Full view - About this book
 | Sir George Otto Trevelyan - 1878 - 552 pages
...well which Wordsworth opposed to the fountain, it is .' Even at parting, after five days, during " There is a change, and I am poor; Your love hath been,...bounty, or my need. " What happy moments did I count I Bless'd was I then, all bliss above. Now, for this consecrated fount Of murmuring, sparkling, living... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1878 - 846 pages
...the sound of Emma's voice, nor know Such happiness as I have known to day. 1SOO. XIV. A COMPLAINT. THERE is a change, — and I am poor ; Your love hath...did ; not taking heed Of its own bounty, or my need. Now, for that consecrated fount Of murmuring, sparkling, living love, What have I ? shall I dare to... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...written, too, when he was a very old man. They are short, and they are the last which I will read: " and talked very naturally and freely, with a mixture of not lonte ago, A fountain at my fond heart's door, Whose only business was to flow ; And flow H did,... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...walk Within the sound of Emma's voice, or know Such happiness as I have known to-day. A COMPLAINT. THERE is a change — and I am poor ; Your love hath...bounty, or my need. What happy moments did I count ! Blest was I then all bliss above ! Now, for this consecrated fount Of murmuring, sparkling, living... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1880 - 330 pages
...communion with that love I seek ; The faith heaven strengthens where He moulds the creed. A COMPLAINT. THERE is a change — and I am poor ; Your love hath...bounty, or my need. What happy moments did I count ! Blest was I then all bliss above 1 Now, for this consecrated fount Of murmuring, sparkling, living... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 618 pages
...know Such happmess as I have known to-day XIV. A COMPLAINT. TIIEEK is a change— and I am poor; \ our love hath been, nor long ago ' A fountain at my fond heart's door' Whose only busmess was to flow • And flow it did ; not taking heed Of its own bounty, or my need. What happy... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1880 - 354 pages
...where He moulds the creed. A COMPLAINT. THERE is a change — and I am poor ; Your love hath heen, nor long ago, A fountain at my fond heart's door, Whose only husiness was to flow; And flow it did ; not taking heed Of its own hounty, or my need. What happy moments... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 pages
...walkWithin the sound of Emma's voice, nor know Such happiness as 1 have known to-day. 1800. A COMPLAINT. THERE is a change — and I am poor : Your Love hath...bounty, or my need. What happy moments did I count 1 Blest was I then all bliss above ! Now, for that consecrated fount Of murmuring, sparkling, living... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1883 - 406 pages
...a change in the manner of a friend.] THERE is a change — and I am poor ; Your love hath been, not long ago, A fountain at my fond heart's door, Whose...bounty, or my need. What happy moments did I count ! Blest was I then all bliss above ! Now, for that consecrated fount1 Of murmuring, sparkling, living... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 454 pages
...Coleridge. It is called simply A Complaint — There is a change — and I am poor ; Your love hath been not long ago A fountain at my fond heart's door, Whose...did ; not taking heed Of its own bounty, or my need. (compare this with the stanzas written in Thomson's Castle of Indolence), and then he tells us : —... | |
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