...poverty and contempt, and 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...

...indicating a fanciful as well as an unhealthy mood of mind, when he averred that " We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." • But though it be not at all necessary that the career of a first-rate poet should be full of discomfort,...

...him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain side : We poets in our youth begin in gladness ; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." You have also the strong lines, likening the sudden apparition of the old man on the moor to a huge...

...joy Following his plough, along the mountainside: 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, Vet it befel, 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,...

...what poet are " all the ways of men so vain and melancholy"? Here is his own account : We poets in our youth begin in gladness ; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. He writes with pretty fancying, almost mirthful, about the small celandine ; but once he takes another...

...England, in Germany I shall gain quiet contentment." CHAPTER VIII. THE MISERIES OF GENIUS. We poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness I WOKDSWORTH, And mighty poets in their misery dead ! IBID. D — n the Muses ! I abominate them and...

...joy Behind 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. Among American poets who have found their chief inspiration in nature'and natural scenery, William...

...exclusively on the wreckage of poetical lives, he came to the dreary conclusion, — ' We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness.' The statement, of course, is far from being of universal application. The mightiest poets, being essentially...

...Following his plough, along the mountain-side ; By our own spirits we are deified ; — We poets in our youth begin in gladness ; But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness. As the poet stands arrested in the cloud of heavy thought, he sees, not far off, a man — Beside a...