 | 1866 - 394 頁
...starless lake of blue ; 1 see them all so excellently fair, I see, not feel how beautiful they are ! in. It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for...passion and the life, whose fountains are within. Iv. O Lady ! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live : Ours is her wedding-garment,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1866 - 502 頁
...lift the smothering weight from off my breast ? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze forever On that green light that lingers in the West : I may...win The passion and the life, whose fountains are withia. ***** — — Prom the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud,... | |
 | 1868 - 846 頁
...My genial spirits fail; And what can these avail "To lift the smothering weight from off my breast ? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for...passion and the life, whose fountains are within. 0 Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live; Ours is her wedding-garment,... | |
 | 1868 - 600 頁
...To lift the smothering weight from off my breast 'I It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gazo for ever On that green light that lingers in the west...passion and the life, whose fountains are within. O Lady ! we receive hut what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live ; Ours is her wedding-garment,... | |
 | 1868 - 624 頁
...weightfrom off my breast? ' My genial spirits fail; It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze forever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may...passion and the life, whose fountains are within. 0 Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone docs Nature live; Ours is her wedding-garment,... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 頁
...genial spirits fail; And what can these avail To lift the smothering weight from off my breast? OIf it were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for...passion and the life, whose fountains are within. (Dejection: An Ode) It is important to compare and contrast the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge.... | |
 | Patrick D. Murphy, Terry Gifford, Katsunori Yamazato - 1998 - 520 頁
...called depression). He could look at the beauties of the natural world forever but in vain because "I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within" (p. 365). For many modern commentators the most significant poet of the Romantic period is not Wordsworth... | |
 | David Goodway - 1998 - 340 頁
...position. Coleridge's own argument is that outward nature is only important in what the poet makes of it: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. Wordsworth's stanzas three and four are an unsuccessful attempt to make the joy he sees in nature,... | |
 | Bradford K. Mudge - 2000 - 298 頁
...1802 poem "Dejection," for example, Coleridge mourned the loss of the "shaping spirit of Imagination": "I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within." That the imagination — given its central position in romantic thought — should share one of its... | |
 | Daniel Sanjiv Roberts - 2000 - 348 頁
...what Yeats might have called the 'terrible beauty' of the Lakes. Quoting from 'Dejection: An Ode', '"I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life whose fountains are within'", De Quincey describes this dislocation of sensibility, the failure to connect the historicized subject... | |
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To lift the smothering weight from off my breast? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. 
