...cypress with which Dante crown'd His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and,...he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few ! " Now, here we have a place for every thing, and every thing in its place. There is nothing irrelevant,...

...soothed an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow : a glow-worm lamp, It...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! A saunter How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks through The way ward brain, to saunter through...

...cypress with which Dante crown'd His visionary brow : a glow-worm Lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and,...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! O 193 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. TO THE LADY BEAUMONT. LADY ! the songs of Spring were in the grove While...

...Dante crown'd His visionary brow : a glow-worm Lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell...he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few. Romeo and Julieta, tra- A Midsommer's Night gedie * Dreame. &c. &c. &c. Bookes red be me, anno 1607....

...Dante crown'd His visionary brow : a glow-worm Lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell...his hand The Thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Romeo and Julieta, tra- A Midsommer's Night gedie * Dreame. &c. &c. &c. Bookes red be me, anno 1607....

...cypress with which Dante crown'd His visionary hrow : a glow-worm Lamp, It cheer'd mild Spenser, call'd from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and,...Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The Thing hecame a Trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. TO...

...Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Fairy-land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! ' — vol. ii. p. 125. When have poetry and criticism mingled more genially than in these fourteen...

...Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Fairy-land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell...whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few ! ' — vol. ii. p. 125. When have poetry and criticism mingled more genially than in these fourteen...

...with it an exile's grief: The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow : a glow-worm lamp It cheered...thing became a trumpet whence he blew Soul-animating strains—alas, too few !" What could be more finished, more perfect, whether you regard it for its...

...soothed an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle-leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow ; a glow-worm lamp, It...he blew Soul-animating strains, — alas, too few. II It A BEAUTEOUS EVENING. IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a nun...