...now perhaps their wonted impulse give, Might startle this dull pain, and make it move and live ! ii. A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled,...natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear — O Lady ! in this wan and heartless mood, To other thoughts by yonder throstle woo'd, All this long...

...now perhaps their wonted impulse give, Might startle this dull pain, and make it move and live ! n. A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled,...natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear — O Lady ! in this wan and heartless mood, To other thoughts by yonder throstle woo'd, All this long...

...poetic vision of nature is sealed even to that uncongenial mood — "The wan and heartless mood — A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear | A...natural outlet — no relief In word, or sigh, or tear * t * * My genial spirits fail, And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my...

...this morbid torpor of the imagination — in some of the stanzas in his ode on " Dejection : " — " A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassion'd grief, AVhich finds no natural outlet, no relief In word, or sigh, or tear. O lady, in...

...now, perhaps, their wonted impulse give, Might startle this dull pain, and make it move and live ! It A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled,...natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear — O Lady ! in this wan and heartless mood, To other thoughts by yonder throstle woo'd, All this long...

...in the spirit in which it is bestowed. Fearful and enduring is that cankerworm of the soul, that ' Grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled,...natural outlet, no relief In word, or sigh, or tear.' " I sometimes think I shall write a book on the duties of women, more especially to their husbands....

...Might now perhaps their wonted impulse give, Might startle this dull pain, and make it move and live! A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled,...natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear— O Lady! in this wan and heartless mood, To other thoughts by yonder throstle woo'd, Now sparkling,...

...the purest and most aspiring minds, — ~ " A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A Milled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet, no relief In word, or sigh, or tear." In this condition of scepticism, when we are like children lost in a forest, what can we do but cry...

...opinions. At this time began that feeling of dejection which afterwards sought in opium a fatal relief. " A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, a stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief," he calls it. This was caused, partly by his debts, : which hung upon him, partly by the sensitiveness...

...unhappiness—this morbid torpor of the imagination—in some of the stanzas in his ode on "Dejection:"— " A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled,...heartless mood, To other thoughts by yonder throstle wooed, All this long eve, so balmy and serene, Have I been gazing on the western sky And its peculiar...