...and watched Till all was tranquil as a summer sea. "THERE WAS A BOY." Composed 1799. Published 1800. THERE was a Boy ; ye knew him well, ye cliffs And...or by the glimmering lake ; And there, with fingers interwoven, both hands Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument,...

...and feebler, and I stood and watched Till all was tranquil as a summer sea. 1799"THERE WAS A BOY." THERE was a Boy ; ye knew him well, ye cliffs And...or by the glimmering lake ; And there, with fingers interwoven, both hands Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument,...

...prodigal Of blessings, and most studious of our good, Even in what seem our most unfruitful hours? 1 There was a Boy : ye knew him well, ye cliffs And...alone Beneath the trees or by the glimmering lake, 1 Sec p. 113. sea, And there, with fingers interwoven, both hands Pressed closely palm to palm, and...

...spirited lad, took the lead of all my schoolfellows in this art. THERE was a Boy ; ye knew him well, ye And islands of Winander ! — many a time, At evening,...the hills, Rising or setting, would he stand alone, Is;neath the trees, or by the glimmering lake; And there, with fingers interwoven, both hands Pressed...

...service high, Matins and vespers of harmonious verse." The lines on the Boy of Windermerc beginning " There was a Boy : ye knew him well, ye cliffs And islands of Winander," he had already sent in MS. to Coleridge, at Ratzeburg, who wrote in reply : " The blank lines gave...

...spiritual in its tone, so full of interpretation in its accent, is for me part of the verse itself: " There was a Boy ; ye knew him well, ye cliffs And...or by the glimmering lake ; And there, with fingers interwoven, both hands Pressed closely palm to palm and to hs mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument,...

...an easy 'conversational' intimacy, Wordsworth's opens with an apostrophe which distances the reader There was a Boy, ye knew him well, ye Cliffs And Islands of Winander! - and an uncertainly located speaker, of whom we hear nothing until the second, separated section.7...

...him well, ye Cliffs And Islands of Winander! many a time At evening, when the stars had just begun To move along the edges of the hills, Rising or setting,...or by the glimmering Lake, And there, with fingers interwoven, both hands Press'd closely, palm to palm, and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an...

...world in which nature and consciousness correspond with the reassuring symmetry of voice and echo: There was a Boy, ye knew him well, ye Cliffs And Islands of Winander! many a time At evening, when the stars had just begun To move along the edges of the hills, Rising or setting, would he stand alone...

...identification of the individual according to its species classification. When a poem by Wordsworth begins, There was a Boy; ye knew him well, ye cliffs And islands of Winander! (There Was a Boy, 1-2) we are being introduced to evidence of Boyhood — which evidence is to be correlated...