 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 356 pàgines
...Their thoughts I cannot measure, But the least motion which they made, It seem'da thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. 20 If I these thoughts may not prevent, If such be of my creed the plan, Have I not reason to lament... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 2003 - 56 pàgines
...thev madeIt seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the bree/v air; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If this belief from heaven be sent, If such be Nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man... | |
 | Lene Østermark-Johansen - 2003 - 182 pàgines
...that he 'cannot measure' the thoughts of the birds around him (a strange thought, this) thinking that 'I must think, do all I can,/ That there was pleasure there,' troubled as he is that he 'these thoughts may not prevent ' ; there is the curious opacity of just... | |
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pàgines
...thoughts I cannot measure: — But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If this belief from heaven be sent, If such be Nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man... | |
 | James B. Twitchell - 2004 - 336 pàgines
...thoughts I cannot measure: — But the least motion which they made It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If this belief from heaven be sent, If such be Nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man... | |
 | Darren J. N. Middleton - 2005 - 288 pàgines
...trees (such as living cells) are at least proto-sentient. As Wordsworth puts the Kazantzakian point: "The budding twigs spread out their fan, / To catch...think, do all I can, / That there was pleasure there." 8 I take it that these "twigs" provide a metaphorical way to refer to the animated, dynamic parts of... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pàgines
...in Early Spring," it is his "faith that every flower / Enjoys the air it breathes," and — watching the "budding twigs spread out their fan, /To catch the breezy air" — he insists, "I must think, do all I can, /That there was pleasure there" (1 1-12, 17-20). In his... | |
 | William Dell - 2005 - 108 pàgines
...things:—/ We murder to dissect." (The Tables Turned) Man has lost touch with his source of power, he fears, "Have I not reason to lament / What man has made of man?" (Lines Written In Early Spring) Literary critics and historians explain that Wordsworth's reaction... | |
 | Lori Branch - 2006 - 364 pàgines
...Their thoughts I cannot measure, But the least motion which they made, It seem'da thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the...there. If I these thoughts may not prevent, If such of my creed the plan, Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man? (LB, 9-24) Moving from... | |
 | Miller Williams - 2006 - 137 pàgines
...Spring" by Wordsworth, one of McDougall's friends. WilliamsMAKING txt.indd 55 ff!4 1/18/07 9:13:18 AM The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the...think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. If this belief from Heaven be sent, If such be Nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man... | |
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It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. 
