...pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movement» all gone by) To me was all in all. — I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. — That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no...

...which his little heart had been accustomed, — " Their colours and their forms, which were to him An appetite, a feeling, and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm ;" Where were they ? He looked backwards down the little street of the village, where a pack of dirty,...

...tremulously alive to the charms of inanimate nature. -The sounding cataract Haunted me like n passion : i ho tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were there to me An appetite ; a feeling aud a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied,...

...eataraet Hannted me like a passion. s « r • * The monntain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their eolonrs and their forms, were then to me An appetite, a feeling, and a love." Byron and Bnrns are beings apart from Natnre, to whose enjoyment she holds the enp, aeeepted by the...

...passion: the tall tock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Theit colouts and theit fotms, wete then to me An appetite: a feeling and a love That had no need ot a temotet chatm. By thought supplied, ot any intetest Unbotiowed from the eye. (Timem Abbey, lines...

...that time in Wordsworth's youth which he has described in the lines written near Tintern Abbey, when The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the...had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. And Wordsworth, and others like-minded with him, have taught...

...fascinated by the sheer, physical, sensuous beauty of nature. For Nature then To me was all in all. I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter...

...of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. — I can not paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted...The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms, were then to me ^An appetite, a feeling, and a love, *That had no need of a...

...things (49) I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams (68-9) Their colours and their forms, were then to me An...feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm (79-81) Something extra: additional reading material The following poem is by Judith Wright, an Australian...

...nature, which others regard only with admiration, he loved with ardour: The sounding cataract Haunted him like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the...wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to him An appetite; a feeling, and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or...