 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
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1857 - 492 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...power That made him ; it was blessedness and love."* It is the mediation of Nature, her_ prophetic function, to convey to the soul the sentiment of God,... | |
 | 1857 - 496 pages
...being ; in them did he live. And by them did he live ; they were his life. In such access of mind, iu such high hour Of visitation from the living God,...power That made him ; it was blessedness and love."* It is the mediation of Nature, her prophetic function, to convey to the soul the sentiment of God,... | |
 | James Mursell Phillippo - 1857 - 506 pages
...swallow'd 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 requests; Wrapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His... | |
 | Horace Binney Wallace - 1857 - 468 pages
...they swallow'd up His animal beiug: 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...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... | |
 | John Caird - 1880 - 398 pages
...ineffable which characterises the moments of rapt poetic feeling, — In such access of mind, in such higli hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired. Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, Ilis mind was... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1973 - 564 pages
...and deep joy. The clouds were touched And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love. . . . His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him. It was blessedness and love. (lines 106-41) Such were the experiences which fostered the development of his mature mind which, "in... | |
 | Basil Willey - 1980 - 310 pages
...pulsations of the world.' And came on that which is: Wordsworth had said 'And I have felt A presence', or 'Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise' ; so poets from time to time try to communicate the incommunicable. But no one who has ever felt this... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1985 - 84 pages
...they 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 from the living God, He did not feel the God, he felt his works. Thought was not; in enjoyment it expired. Such hour by... | |
 | Peter Gardella - 1985 - 225 pages
...well worth the time. Ingersoll described the condition thus attained with an allusion to Wordsworth: In such high hour Of visitation from the Living God Thought was not.23 Ecstasy — a trancelike, self-obliterating experience of "visitation from the Living God" —... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Marshall Brown - 1989 - 532 pages
...imaginative recreation of them in literature. Wordsworth described the Wanderer in The excursion as 'Rapt into still communion that transcends / The imperfect offices of prayer and praise.'26 Poetic reinventions of ceremonies of initiation, passage and communion, often placed within... | |
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