| Canadian Education Association - 1900 - 474 sider
...giddy throng. A poet's heart, he says, at once responds to the daffodils' invitation to be happy. " A poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company," and every time that his mind turns back to the bright spectacle, his heart beats with renewed pleasure.... | |
| James Jesse Burns - 1901 - 172 sider
...thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. 3. The waves beside them danced ; but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee : A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company : I gazed,—and gazed,—but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: 4. For oft, when on... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1901 - 286 sider
...thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee : — A Poet could not but be gay 15 In such a jocund company ! I gazed — and gazed — but little thought What wealth the show to... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1080 sider
...thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. j The waves beside them danced, but i In such a jocund company : I gazed — and gazed — but little thought • What wealth the show... | |
| George Douglas Atkins, Michael L. Johnson - 1985 - 240 sider
...thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: 156 I gazed— and gazed— but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when... | |
| Doris B. Wallace, Howard E. Gruber - 1992 - 317 sider
...experience, transformed the experience again. The poem concludes: The waves besides them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee — A poet could not but be gay In such a laughing company. I gazed and gazed, but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought. For... | |
| W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - 1989 - 348 sider
...thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, [ 15 ] In such a jocund company: I gazed — and gazed — but little thought NKIN (i T ()(JETHER For... | |
| Trevor Whittock - 1990 - 200 sider
...natural objects that later lines in the poem will make more explicit: The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee; A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company. Once the main purport of the poem is recognized - that a sense of belonging to the life of the world... | |
| Larry Swartz - 1993 - 132 sider
...thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them, danced, but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay In such jocund company! I gazed — and gazed — but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought:... | |
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