...Wordsworthian speaker gainsays an earlier article of faith, namely, the statement in "Tintern Abbey" that Nature never did betray The heart that loved...the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy. (WPW, 11. 122-25) For Shelley's Wordsworthian speaker, Nature is not to be followed joyfully as a leader...

...seventeenth-century lawyer Sir William Drake. 40 The allusion in Wordsworth is in T1ntern Abbey, lines 1 22-4: 'And this prayer I make, / Knowing that Nature never did betray / The heart that loved her.' Cf. Samuel Daniel, The Civil Wars, 11.225 6: 'Here have you craggy rocks to take your part,...

...Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears, ['Ode'] and Nature never did betray The heart that lov'd her: 'tis her privilege. Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy. [Tintern Abbey'] Ideologically speaking, the problem with this view of nature is that it depends on...

...dearest Friend,3 My dear, dear Friend, and in day voice 1 catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes. Oh! yet a litde while 120 May I behold in thee what I was once, My dear, dear Sister! And this prayer I make,...

...the weary weight / Of all this unintelligible world' (40-1) until a more uplifting claim supervenes, And this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ... (122-4) - a claim which folds the knowledge of betrayal into the heart of prayer, rather...

...(6), the poet seeks at best a temporary, temporal fix for loss, via the mediation of representation: "Oh! yet a little while / May I behold in thee what I was once . . . !" (120-21). The insufficiency of his seeking of comfort from this sororial thou, amid a world...

...all the land. Would this be waste or improvement of time ? Let Wordsworth reply : — " Nature sever did betray The heart that loved her. Tis her privilege, Through all the years of this onr life, to lead From joy to joy ; for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With...

...never did betray The heart that loved her. (lines 11 6-23; WPW, 2:262) The prayer Wordsworth speaks, "yet a little while / May I behold in thee what I was once," cannot but have a certain elegiac quality, despite the elaborate statement about a compensatory exchange...

...repetition, his experience. [. . .] and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy...Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her [....] (11. 116-23) bond than does that "something far more deeply interfused"; continuity...

...dearest Friend, My dear, dear Friend, and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy...May I behold in thee what I was once, My dear, dear Sister!16 At the end of the poem, the speaker instructs Dorothy, his silent companion, to understand...