...joy Behind his plough, upon the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness ; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. Now, whether it were by peculiar grace, A leading from above, a something given. Yet it befel, that,...

...joy Behind his plough, upon the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness ; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. Now, whether it were by peculiar grace, A leading from above, a something given, Yet it befel, that,...

...joy Behind his plough, upon the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified ; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness ; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. Now, whether it were by peculiar grace, A leading from above, a something given, Yet it befel, that,...

...of whom Wordsworth thought, when he spoke " Of mighty poets in their misery dead ! We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof comes in the end despondency and madnaM ?" Mighty they may not be called by the side of the godlike — but mighty they are, compared...

...and contempt, and at last ended their days in moping melancholy or moody madness! " We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." Is this the fault of themselves, of nature in tempering them of too fine a clay, or of the world, that...

...Following his plough, along the mountain-side : By our own spirits are we deified ; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness ; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. Now, whether it were by peculiar grace, A leading from above, a something given, Yet it befel, that,...

...parents have not yet heard that their son was a murderer. MEN OF GENIUS. A FRAGMENT. Poets in their youth begin in gladness, " But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." WORDSWORTH. THERE is no wreck which is more a sight for pity than that human ruin, an unfortunate man...

...only offer our former admonition, with two lines from his favourite, Wordsworth : " Poets in their youth begin in gladness, " But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." The editor of the " New Monthly Magazine," in his number for September, has an article on Count Kostopchin's...

...and contempt, and at last ended their days in moping melancholy or moody madness! "We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." Is this the fault of themselves, of nature in tempering them of too fine a clay, or of the world, that...

...hearts are led By love's quick cords — by memory's thrill, THE BLIGHT OF THE SPIRIT. " We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." WORDSWORTH. I. He stood supreme in lofty genius, proud In his soul's majesty; young, ardent, fired...