...Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain-torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his...the steady lake. This boy was taken from his mates, find died In childhood, ere he was full twelve years old. Pre-eminent in beauty is the vale Where he...

...jocund mirth and din ! And when it chanced That pauses of deep silence mocked his skill : Then sometimes in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle...lake. This boy was taken from his mates, and died In childhood, ere he was full twelve years old. Fair is the spot, most beautiful the vale Where he...

...jocund mirth and din ! And when it chanced That pauses of deep silence mocked his skill : Then sometimes in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle...lake. This boy was taken from his mates, and died In childhood, ere he was full twelve years old. Fair is the spot, most beautiful the vale Where he...

...Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain-torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his...lake. This boy was taken from his mates, and died In childhood, ere he was full twelve years old. Pre-eminent in beauty is the vale And, through that...

...Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain-torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his...lake. This boy was taken from his mates, and died In childhood, ere he was full twelve years old. Pre-eminent in beauty is the vale Where he was born...

...Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain-torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his...lake. This boy was taken from his mates, and died In childhood, ere he was full twelve years old. Pre-eminent in beauty is the vale And, through that...

...and jocund din ! And, when it chanced That pauses of deep silence mocked his skill, Then, sometimes, in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle...lake. This boy was taken from his mates, and died In childhood, ere he was full twelve years old. Fair are the woods, and beauteous is the spot, The...

...language, and could speak with birds and beasts, or even with some inanimate scene : " Sometimes, when he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise...heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake." The very intensity of such a life cut it short ; chords so highly strung could not but break. So true...

...the atmosphere, and motions of the lightest breeze, and subject to agitation only from the winds — -The visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind...heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake ! It must be noticed, as a favourable characteristic of the lakes of this country, that, though several...

...and jocund din : and when it chanced That pauses of deep silence mocked his skill, Then sometimes, in that silence while he hung Listening, a gentle...heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake." No other poet but Wordsworth that the world overproduced could have written this ; you feel in reading...