 Exulting, rich beyond the wealth of kings, I felt a sense of pain when I beheld The silent trees, and saw the intruding sky. — Then, dearest Maiden, move along these shades In gentleness of heart; with gentle hand Touch — for there is a spirit in...  The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist - Page 3951843Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 284 pages
...leaves gave him a " sense of pain," and warns his sister Dorothy to move among the hazels gently — "with gentle hand Touch — for there is a spirit in the woods. " And in his poem Humanity, Wordsworth expressly connects humanity to man with humanity to the brutes,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English literature - 1897 - 350 pages
...and saw the intruding sky. — Then, dearest maiden, move along these shades In gentleness of heart ; with gentle hand Touch — for there is a spirit in the woods. 1799. O NIGHTINGALE! NIGHTINGALE ! thou surely art A creature of a fiery heart : — These notes of... | |
 | English poetry - 1898 - 344 pages
...saw the intruding sky, — • Then, dearest Maiden, move along these shades In gentleness of heart ; with gentle hand Touch — for there is a spirit in the woods. — William Wordsworth. THE SQUIRREL. THE pretty, black Squirrel lives up in a tree, A little blithe... | |
 | William John Clarke Miller - Bird watching - 1899 - 248 pages
...form especially his own : — " Then, dearest maiden, move along these shades In gentleness of heart, with gentle hand Touch, for there is a spirit in the woods." Numberless felicities may be found in Thomson's poetry, worthy of Theocrites, of Virgil, or of Tennyson... | |
 | John Scott Clark - American poetry - 1900 - 886 pages
...and saw the intruding sky. — Then, dearest maiden, move along these shades In gentleness of heart ; with gentle hand Touch — for there is a spirit in the woods." — Nutting. 9. Sympathy with Humanity. " As the poet of suffering and of sympathy with suffering,... | |
 | 1900 - 492 pages
...archway, Worasworth's admonition comes into our minds: "Move along taese shades in gentleness of heart; with gentle hand touch — for there is a spirit in the woods." What a cheerless spot the world would be without these numerous feathered spirits. There is something... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1904 - 676 pages
...trees, and saw the intruding sky. Then, dearest Maiden, move along these shades In gentleness of heart ; with gentle hand Touch, for there is a spirit in the woods. "SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT" SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight ;... | |
 | Charles Wesley Emerson - Elocution - 1905 - 138 pages
...and saw the intruding sky — Then, dearest Maiden, move along these shades In gentleness of heart ; with gentle hand Touch — for there is a spirit in the woods. THE DODSON FAMILY. From Mill on the Floss. PART I. 1. The Dodsons were certainly a handsome family,... | |
 | Alexander Mackie - English poetry - 1906 - 156 pages
...the world. Hence in Nutting he asks his sister to move along these shades In gentleness of heart ; with gentle hand Touch, — for there is a spirit in the woods. And in Tintern Abbey he tells us : — I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated... | |
 | David Watson Rannie - English literature - 1907 - 422 pages
...need of the exhortation — " Then, dearest maiden, move along these shades, In gentleness of heart ; with gentle hand Touch — for there is a spirit in the woods." " There is a spirit in the woods" This, which in other poets might be a mere play of illusory fancy,... | |
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