...Following the plough, along the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified ; We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. Now, whether it were by peculiar grace, A leading from above, a something given, Yet it befel that,...

...in joy Behind his plough along the mountain-side. By our own spirits are we deified: We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." Never was a picture more perfect or more suggestive. But time presses, and we can only now ask the...

...poverty and contempt, and ended their days in moping melancholy or moody madness! " We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." Is this the fault of themselves, of nature in tempering them of too fme a clay, or of the world, that...

...the wondrous boy, The sleepless soul that perish'd in his pride." — WORDSWORTH. " We poets, in our youth, begin in gladness; But thereof comes, in the end, despondency and madness. — IsID. " His big heart swelled with pride, and the death of the youth was dark in his soul." MACPHERSON'B...

...Besides the cry of neglected genius, there is also that of the " miseries of genius." We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. Most false doctrine! •' There is not," says Burns, " in all the martyr ologies that were ever penned...

...poverty and contempt, and ended their days in moping melancholy or moody madness ! " We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." Is this the fault of themselves, of nature in tempering them of too fine a clay, or of the world, that...

...turning point in his career. How will he prosper? CHAPTER VIII. THE MISERIES OF GENIUS. We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness! WOSDSWORTH. And mighty poets in their misery dead! IBID. D — n the Muses! I abominate them and their...

...Following his plough, along the mountain side : By our own spirits are we deified : We poets in our youth begin in gladness : But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. Now, whether it were by peculiar grace, A leading from above, a something given, Yet it befel, that,...

...joy, Following his plough along the mountain side. By our own spirits are we deified : We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." But this sad and common fate of poets, was not to visit Wordsworth. The devotion he had vowed to nature...

...reproduce, in rags, the rags ye blot in song. Wordsworth pathetically ejaculates — We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof comes in the end despondency and sadness ! Burns chants the same strain — " There is not in all the martyrologies that ever were penned,...