...by Wordsworth, I may notice an effect of iteration daily exhihited in the habits of cattle : — " The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one." Now, merely as a fact, and if it were nothing more, this characteristic appearance in the habits of...

...(Tauchn. ed. I p. 246), "written in March, while resting on the bridge at the foot of Brother's Water": The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one. The question naturally arises how this difference in the taste of the two nations is to be accounted...

...crowing, J- The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with...hill; The ploughboy is whooping — anon — anon There 's joy in the mountains ; There 's life in the fountains ; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky...

...crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun : The oldest and youngest Are at work with...The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On ths top of the bare hill. The ploughboy is whooping — anon, anon ; There's joy in the mountains,...

...crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with...heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ? And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill ; The plowboy is whooping — anon — anon ! There...

...gone beyond recall. We feel this lack in Wordsworth all the more keenly if we compare such verses as " Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill," with Goethe's exquisite Ueber alien Gipfeln ist Ruh, in which the lines (as if shaken down by a momentary...

...by Wordsworth, I may notice an effect of iteration daily exhibited in the habits of cattle : — " The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising , There are forty feeding like one." Now, merely as a fact, and if it were nothing more, this characteristic appearance in the habits of...

...Wordsworth's kleinem Gedichte 'Written in March' (Poetical Works, Moxon, 1850, 6 vols, II, 110) heisst es: The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one. Die bekannte Ballade 'Barbara Fritchie' von Whittier (Complete Poetical Works, Boston, 1873 p. 270)...

...by Wordsworth, I may notice an effect of iteration daily exhibited in the habits of cattle : — " The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising , There are forty feeding like one." Now, merely as a fact, and if it were nothing more, this characteristic appearance in the habits of...

...gone beyond recall. We feel this lack in Wordsworth all the more keenly if we compare such verses as " Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated And now doth fare ill Oii the top of the bare hill," with Goethe's exquisite Ueber alien Gipfeln ist Ruh, in which the lines...