 First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit ; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moon-light, to the influxes Of shapes...  The Monthly review. New and improved ser - Page 2011799Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1869 - 204 pages
...up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest- dell, By sun or moon-light, to the influxes Of shapes and...song Should make all Nature lovelier, and itself Be loved like Nature ! But 'twill not be so ; And youths and maidens most poetical, Who lose the deepening... | |
 | David Grant (of Aberdeen) - 1871 - 478 pages
...up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest- dell, By sun or moonlight, to the influxes Of shapes, and...Surrendering his whole spirit, of his song And of his name forgetful ! So his fame Should share in nature's immortality, A venerable thing ! and so his song... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Poetry - 1873 - 552 pages
...£ j Poet who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Q Z 1 Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moonlight,...song Should make all Nature lovelier, and itself Be loved like Nature ! I X D 3) •4 0 S p o H X H Ot H "o , [From " The Nightingale : a Conversation... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...the rhyme When he had better far have stretch'd his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By son And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail! Still...theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was heard Bo loved like Nature ! But 'twill not be so ; And youths and maidens most poetical, Who lose the deepening... | |
 | English song - 1873 - 566 pages
...elements M Surrendering his whole spirit, of his song 0 ' And of his fame forgetful ! so his fame X o Should share in Nature's immortality, % £ A venerable...his song Should make all Nature lovelier, and itself M w Be loved like Nature! "o H [From " The Nightingale : a Conversation Poem," 1798.] o o" z 0 •... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1874 - 396 pages
...up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest dell ; By sun or moonlight to the influxes Of shapes and...song Should make all Nature lovelier, and itself Be loved like Nature. It is curious that the_goem_Jn_ -which^ Coleridge— is trjie£i-tQ.__N_ature_ .... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 470 pages
...conceit ; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By Sun or Moon-light,...Should share in Nature's immortality, A venerable thmg ! and so his song Should make all Nature lovelier, and itself Be loved like Nature ! But 'twill... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Literary Criticism - 1875 - 374 pages
...building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretched his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest dell; By sun or moonlight to the influxes Of shapes and...song Should make all Nature lovelier, and itself Be loved like Nature. It is curious that the poem in which Coleridge is truest to Nature is the " Ancient... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...had better far have stretch'd his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moon light, to the influxes Of shapes and sounds and shifting...Nature's immortality, A venerable thing ! and so his song 10 This passage in Milton possesses an excellence far superior to thatof mcredeBcription. It is spoken... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1877 - 408 pages
...conceit ; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have stretch'd his limbs Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell, By sun or moon-light,...song Should make all Nature lovelier, and itself Be loved like Nature ! But 'twill not be so ; And youths and maidens most poetical, Who lose the deepening... | |
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