...He recalls the first ardours of his youth, when the beautiful object itself of nature seemed to him all in all : — " I cannot paint What then I was....passion; the tall rock, The mountain and the deep and gloomy wood. Theircolours and their forms were thus to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had...

...sweetens pain. A fine poet thus describes the effect of the sight of nature on his mind: — — — " The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion :...wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite, a feeling, and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm By thought supplied, or...

...nature seemed to him all in all :— " I caunot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Hannted me like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountain, and...and gloomy wood. Their colours and their forms were thns to me An appetite; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm By thought supplied,...

...the beantiful object when the beautiful itself of nature seemed to him all in all : — " I caunot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted...like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountain, and the dctp and gloom/ wood. Their colours and their forms were thus to me An appetite; a feeling and a love...

...thought, sentimenl, an': almost of action ; or as it will be found express*). of a state of mind when -" the sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, * These Poems are now printed entire. Their colours and their forma were then to me An...

...pleasure! of my hoyish days And their glad animal movement!, all gone by) To me wat all In all — 1 cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite : a feeling and a love. That had no need of a remoter charm By thought supplied, or...

...joys of sensations and a sense of intimacy with exrernal nature: . . . The sounding cataract Haunred me like a passion: the tall rock. The mountain, and...and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were thrn to me An appetire; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remorer charm. By thought supplied,...

...first he was thrilled and fascinated by the sheer, physical, sensuous beauty of nature. For Nature then To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was....The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter...

...that time in Wordsworth's youth which he has described in the lines written near Tintern Abbey, when The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the...wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor...

...Wordsworth afterwards broke it up, and « The Female Vagrant" is composed out of it. — Ed] •(• [For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days,...movements all gone by) To me was all in all. — I can not paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The...