 Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings ? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago : Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day ? Some...  The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Side 176af William Wordsworth - 1871 - 568 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 sider
...Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again ? VVhate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have...my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. (1803.) YARROW UNVISITED. 1803. [See the various poems the scene of which is laid upon the btnVs of... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 sider
...Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again ? Whatc'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have...my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. YARROW UN VISITED. 1803. (1803.) [See tlie various poems the scene of which is li'd upon the banks... | |
 | Lynn A. Higgins, Brenda R. Silver - 1991 - 352 sider
...battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again? Whate'er...music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.7 As is well known, Wordsworth's poem was not composed spontaneously upon his encounter with a... | |
 | Don H. Bialostosky - 1992 - 336 sider
...battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain. That has been, and may be again? Whate'er...my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. The second sentence of Hartman's first paragraph introduces a fruitful ambiguity in his interpretation... | |
 | 1993 - 412 sider
...battles long ago; Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of today? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again? Whate'er...singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending; @ I listen'd, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 sider
...battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of today? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again? Whate'er...sickle bending; I listened, motionless and still; 30 And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. Character... | |
 | Constance Coiner - 1995 - 313 sider
...mental agility of the poet. Olsen could easily have had Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper" in mind: I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle...my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. (351-352) Olsen could also have been thinking of the no-less-condescending Yeats poem, "The Lover Tells... | |
 | Constance Coiner - 1995 - 324 sider
...mental agility of the poet. Olsen could easily have had Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper" in mind: Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang As if her song...my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. (351-352) Olsen could also have been thinking of the no-less-condescending Yeats poem, "The Lover Tells... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 sider
...been, and may be again? Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending; 1 saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending:...my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. COMPOSED 1805; PUBLISHED 1807. Reading Thomas Wilkinson's Tour of Scotland gave Wordsworth the idea... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 2003 - 56 sider
...Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again? 'y,£ .. Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song...my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. Reaper — one who reaps or cuts grain for harvest with a scvthe or sickle Highland Lass— -girl'... | |
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