 Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks Of childhood — but that there the Soul discerns The dear memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigour ; thence can hear Reverberations ; and a choral song, Commingling with the incense that...  Poems: Now First Collected - Page 211by Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 402 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1883 - 406 pages
...interesting note to the Ode on Immortality, in Professor Henry Reed's American edition of the Poems. Ah I why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks Of...memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigour — thence can hear Reverberations ; and a choral song, Commingling with the incense that ascends Undaunted... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1882 - 720 pages
...impulse ; and so moves the man 'Mid all his apprehensions, cares, and fears, — Or so he ought to move. Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks...there the Soul discerns The dear memorial footsteps unimpair'd Reverberations ; and a choral song, Commingling with the incense that ascends, Undaunted,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1884 - 456 pages
...impossible to sit In awful sovereignty ; a place of power, A throne, that* may be likened unto his, 1827. Of her own native vigour — but for this, That it is given her thence in age to hear isit, 1 18S7. Undaunted, towVds .... isn " 183J. will ever be allowed, isu. 4 is«7. i Who, in some... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1882 - 642 pages
...— Or so he ought to move. Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks Of childhood— hut that there the Soul discerns The dear memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigour ; thence can hear Reverherations : and a choral song. Commingling with the incense that ascends, Undaunted,... | |
 | American literature - 1883 - 876 pages
...troubled the heart of man — reverts fondly to it, as age reverts to the walks of childhood, -where " The soul discerns The dear memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigor ; thence can hear Reverberations and a choral song, Commingling with the incense that ascends,... | |
 | Walter Geikie - 1885 - 354 pages
...is the feelings induced by such a conversation which Wordsworth expresses in such noble language — Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks...memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigour ; thence can hear Reverberations ; and a choral song, Commingling with the incense that ascends, Undaunted,... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - Europe - 1886 - 374 pages
...troubled the heart of man ; reverts fondly to it, as age reverts to the walks of childhood, where — " the soul discerns The dear memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigour ; thence can hear Reverberations and a choral song, Commingling with the incense that ascends, Undaunted,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 284 pages
...Reed, in his edition of Wordsworth, cites, as parallel passages to this poem, the Excursion, ix.: " Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks...memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigour," etc. and the Prelude, v. : " Ouv childhood sits, Our simple childhood, sits upon a throne That hath... | |
 | James Baldwin - English poetry - 1892 - 316 pages
...The clouds that gather. Compare these lines with the following from Wordsworth's " Excursion " : " Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks...there the soul discerns The dear memorial footsteps unimpair'd Of her own native vigor, thence can hear Reverberations and a choral song, Commingling with... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1892 - 970 pages
...impulse; and so moves the man 'Mid all his apprehensions, cares, and fears, — Or so he ought to move. Ah! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks Of childhood — but thai there the Soul discerns The dear memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigor; thence... | |
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