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" tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. The birds around me hopped and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure : — But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch... "
From the age of Johnson to the age of Tennyson - Page 46
by Richard Garnett - 1903
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William Wordsworth: A Biography

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 588 pages
...hopp'd and play'd, Their thoughts I cannot measure, But the least motion that they made, It seem'da thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air, An<l I mutt think, do all I eon, That there eeas pleature there. If this belief from heaven he sent,...
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Select specimens of English poetry

Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The hudding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the hreezy air ; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If this helief from heaven he sent, If such he nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man...
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The Earlier Poems of William Wordsworth: Corrected as in the Latest Editions ...

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 pages
...hopped and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure : — But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. * Written in 1798, while sitting by the side of the brook that runs down the Comb, in which is the...
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Pearls from the poets: specimens selected, with biogr. notes, by H.W. Dulcken

Henry William Dulcken - 1860 - 230 pages
...hopp'd and play'd ; Their thoughts I cannot measure ; But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. From Heaven if this belief be sent, If such be Nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 90

David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - English literature - 1904 - 600 pages
...another sense that a natural selection explains they have attuned their note to their sensation of good. And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. Wordsworth so wrote of " the budding twigs," but he also said : The birds around me hopped and played...
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The Parochial (Oxford parochial) magazine [afterw.] The Oxford ..., Volume 3

1863 - 568 pages
...gratings in Magdalene walk ; I have oft myself found much benefit accrue from their society. Watch " The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air." Look for the first primrose ; watch that sticky chestnut bud, held like a lamp over the water, unfold...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...hopp'd and play'd, Their thoughts I cannot measure— But the least motion which they made It seem'da thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. CCLXXIII RUTH: OR THE INFLUENCES OF NATURE When Ruth was left half desolate Her father took another...
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A book of English poetry; ed. by T. Shorter

Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...least motion which they made, It seem'da thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fen To catch the breezy air ; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If this belief from heaven be sent, If such be Nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man...
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Pleasant Spots and Famous Places

John Alfred Langford - England - 1862 - 310 pages
...hopped and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure : — But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. " The budding twigs spread out...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there." But this ineffable condition cannot subsist long. All things in the world change, and, by a gracious...
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The historical, biographical and poetical reader; or, Scholar's companion

John Laurie Blake - 1862 - 236 pages
...around me hopp'd and play*d ; Their thoughts I cannot measure—- But the least motion that they made, The budding twigs spread out their fan. To catch the...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If this belief from heaven is sent, If such be nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man...
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