...evening when the light was just going away." ( Dorvtk* Wordsworth's Journal, Octobers, 1800.) THERE anJ bright ; The birds are singing in the distant woods : Over his own sweet voice the Stock-dove broods...

...who lived in the Lake District of England, where it rains and is windy much of the time, wrote: There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily, and fell in floods, . . . The hare is running races in her mirth And with her feet, she from the plashy earth Raises a...

...expression of the poet's sense that nature is there to be comprehended through the use of the senses ("There was a roaring in the wind all night; / The rain came heavily and fell in floods"25). Now nature is intelligibly present to him. Where once there was a roaring, now there are...

...placed below them. So with the sounds at the beginning of Wordsworth's "Resolution and Independence": The birds are singing in the distant woods; Over his...all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters. [4-7] — where the water sound underlies and underscores the others in a Spenserian alexandrine. No...

...me, If there be but three or four Who will love my little Flower. Resolution and Independence I There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came...all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters. II All things that love the sun are out of doors; The sky rejoices in the morning's birth; The grass...

...sunrise, which comprises a traffic between species and even between living and nonliving processes as "the Jay makes answer as the Magpie chatters; / And...all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters" (Wordsworth 1969, 155). As in Blake's first "Nurse's Song" (or in the utopian conclusion of Coleridge's...

...salient positions: it marks openings, climaxes and conclusions. Wordsworth's practice is typical: 8 There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came...all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters. (from Resolution and Independence, 1807) This poem opens with a contrast between a reported past (ll.1-2)...

...than of welcome. Shortly after the appearance of Wordsworth's "Resolution and Independence," There was a roaring in the wind all night. The rain came heavily and fell in floods, some one read aloud the poem to an intelligent woman. She burst into tears, but recovering herself,...

...drop to drink. 'Morning After a Storm' by William Wordsworth. From Resolution and Independence There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily and fell in floods. 'Away, Away' by Percy Bysshe Shelley. From The Invitation Away, away from men and towns, To the wild...

...that emphasizes nature's familiar but unexpected and seemingly inexplicable changes of weather: "There was a roaring in the wind all night; / The rain came...floods; / But now the sun is rising calm and bright." Wordsworth's real interest is not in the fluxes and refluxes of the weather, of course, but in those...