...round me, like the twining vine, And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth, But oh 1 each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. For not...

...misfortunes were but as the stuff, Whence Fancy made me dreams of happiness. " But now afflictions bow me down to earth, Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth ; But O, each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of imagination." But...

...round me, like the twining vine, And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth ; Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth. But O ! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of imagination. For...

...estrangement from his wife ; and in it he laments the decay of his poetic faculties : ' But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care I that they rob me...me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.' It is a melancholy poem, and still more so when we remember that the remainder of his life only proved...

...the beautiful though unequal ode entitled Dejection, stanza six, occurs the following passage : — " For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient all I can, And haply by abstrute research to steal From my men nature all the natural man, — This was my sole resource, my...

...profoundest abstractions, from liib »nd human sensibilities. ' For not to think of what I needs most feel, But to be still and patient all I can; And haply by abttruse research to steal, From my own nature, all the natural man : This was my sole resource, my...

...round me, like the twining vine, And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seem'd mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care I that they rob me...For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be^still and patient, all I can ; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the...

...round me like the twining vine; And fruits and foliage, not my own, seemed mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth, Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth ; But oh I each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of imagination. For not...

...round me, like the twining vine, And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine. But now afflictions bow me down to earth : Nor care I that they rob me...must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can ; yAnd haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole...

...intellectual analysis had brought him : the moral as well as intellectual collapse which ensued. When— Not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be...all I can, And haply by abstruse research to steal, This was my sole resource, my only plan ; Till what befits a part infects the whole, And now has almost...