Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy; his spirit drank The spectacle: sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life. In such access... Poems by William Wordsworth - Page 71by William Wordsworth - 1907 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 388 pages
...swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation...mountain-tops, Such intercourse was his, and in this sort Was his existence oftentimes possessed. O then how beautiful, how bright, appeared The written promise... | |
| Meta Lander - 1854 - 364 pages
...physical frame, and a hemorrhage of the lungs — her first attack — followed this unusual excitement. " In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation...Thought was not, — in enjoyment it expired. No thanks she breathed, she proffered no request, Rapt into still communion, that transcends The imperfect offices... | |
| Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee - 1854 - 254 pages
...so soon followed by the other. To Mr. Lawrence the lines -of the poet might be truly applied : — " His mind was a thanksgiving to the Power That made him ; it was blessedness and love." lines that he wrote on seeing Greenough's Angel and Child ; we extract some of the most striking. Both... | |
| Thomas Treadwell Stone - 1854 - 372 pages
...Music and song are dismissed ; words of prayer and of praise lie still, the feeling is too deep : — " His mind was a thanksgiving to the Power That made him ; it was blessedness and love ! " But even this, as I have said, is partial. It is lonely, rather than social ; contemplative, rather... | |
| Meta Lander - 1854 - 340 pages
...visitation from the living God, Thought was not, — in enjoyment it expired. No thanks she breathed, she proffered no request, Rapt into still communion, that...transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise " TEACHING.— MORBID TENDENCIES. " And wilt Thou hear the f«vered heart To Thee in silence cry 1... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1854 - 340 pages
...being: in them he did live. And by them he did live; they were his life. In such access of mind, in snch high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not : in enjoyment it expired. Why not use them in an equally liberal spirit ?" " Ah, Mr. Berry," said Mrs. Marston, " yonr armory... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1854 - 348 pages
...he did live, And by them he did live; they were his Ufa. 1n such access of mind, in such high huur Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not : in enjoyment it expired. Why not use them in an equally liberal spirit ?" " Ah, Mr. Berry," said Mrs. Marston, " your armory... | |
| John Pierpont - 1855 - 530 pages
...swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation...expired. No thanks he breathed ; he proffered no request ; Kapt into still communion, that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was... | |
| Peter Bayne - 1855 - 540 pages
...they swallowM up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were hU life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation...in enjoyment it expired. No thanks he breathed, he proffer'd no request ; Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1855 - 318 pages
...expired. No thanks he breathed, he preferred no request ; Rapt into still communion that transeends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind...Power That made him ; it was blessedness and love ! " — Excursim, B. i. P. 33. The silver brook flowing into golden streamt. — This may allude to... | |
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