 | Jerome J. McGann - 1985 - 182 pages
...despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shews of being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream that could not live Where meditation was. I turned away, And walked along my road in happiness." (5 13-24) "The Ruined Cottage" is an exemplary case of what commentators... | |
 | James Chandler - 1984 - 338 pages
...despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shews of being leave behind Appeared an idle dream that could not live Where meditation was. I turned away And walked along my road in happiness. [118-35] These lines describe a passage from "sorrow" to "happiness"... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shows of being leave behind Appeared an idle dream that could not live Where meditation was: I turned away And walked along my road in happiness.' He ceased. Ere long, the sun, declining, shot A slant and mellow... | |
 | Kurt Fosso - 2004 - 316 pages
...despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shews of being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream that could not live Where meditation was. I turned away And walked along my road in happiness. (D.520-25) The pedlar encourages the poem's narrator to do likewise,... | |
 | Amanda Gilroy - 2004 - 224 pages
...despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shews of being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream that could not live Where meditation was. I turned away And walked along my road in happiness. (ll. 513-525) And so the Pedlar comforts himself and carries on,... | |
 | Onno Oerlemans - 2004 - 268 pages
...despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shews of being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream that could not live Where meditation was. I turned away And walked along my road in happiness. (ll. 51o-25)J' In contrast to much of the deleted addendum, the... | |
 | Colin Jager - 2007 - 304 pages
...despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shews of being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream that could not live Where meditation was. I turned away And walked along my road in happiness." (512—25) A familiar criticism of these lines is that they make... | |
 | Stephen Gill - 2006 - 417 pages
...despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shews of being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream that could not live Where meditation was. I turned away And walked along my road in happiness. (The Ruined Cottage', 509-25) Wordsworth has always provoked widely... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1866 - 786 pages
...invige of tranquillity, So calm and still, and look'd so beautiful Amid th' uneasy thoughts which fill'd my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From...dream, that could not live Where meditation was. I turn'd away, And walk'd along my road in happiness." To fall upon us, while, beneath the trees, We... | |
 | 1881 - 890 pages
...despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief, The passing shows of being leave behind. Appeared an idle dream, that could not live Where meditation was. I turned away And walked along my road in happiness. No poet but Wordsworth would have concluded such a tale with these... | |
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I passed, did to my heart convey So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing... 
