...recollection, here figured as a gift from external sources, nourishing an enfeebled or empty self: While here I stand, not only with the sense Of present...and food For future years. And so I dare to hope. (62-65) Marshall Brown has stressed the boldness in "daring to hope"; but one should note its self-consciousness...

...half-extinguished thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again: While here I stand, not...Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first 1 came among these hills; when like a roe I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides Of the deep rivers,...

...half-extinguished thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, 60 And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again: While here I stand, not...with the sense Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts0 That in this moment there is life and food For future years. And so I dare to hope Though...

...great deal of subsequent poetry. Accepting - indeed, undergoing - such loss, Wordsworth discovered "That in this moment there is life and food / For future years," discovered (literally) a new spiritual life: a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused,...

...'d thought . With many recognitions dim and faint, 60 And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again: While here I stand, not...present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts That in t his moment there is life and food Though changed, no doubt, from what I was, when first I came among...

...Romantic, their histories, as Tender Is the Night confirms, are radically different. Wordsworth writes: While here I stand, not only with the sense Of present...from what I was when first I came among these hills (118) The poet looks back upon the past and feels "pleasing thoughts" about the future — despite...

...on it: he undergoes new influences, makes new resolutions'. It's Wordsworth revisiting Tintern Abbey ('Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first I came among these hills . . .'); and my awestruck admiration was later replaced by a hung-over replay. How sickly his books...

...half-extinguished thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, And somewhat of a sad perplexity, The picture of the mind revives again; While here I stand, not...life and food For future years. And so I dare to hope [...] (From: Wordsworth, Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey) This type of verse is known...

...forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: The picture of the mind revives again: While here I stand, not...this moment there is life and food For future years. The poems say that it is memory of past beauty and nature that saddens or fills the heart with nostalgia...

...has received "that blessed mood" when away, by recollecting "these beauteous forms;" and, he adds, While here I stand, not only with the sense Of Present...this moment there is life and Food For future years. (Tintern Abbey) As the poet writes, time and place are compounded together, perhaps even transcended....