...in glory and in joy Behind his plough, upon 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,...

...in glory and in joy Behind his plough, upon 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,...

...in glory and in joy Behind his plough, upon 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,...

...CHILDE ALARiatTJB, i « A POET'S REVERIE. IN THREE PARTS. \ V, ' A sPOET'S REVERIE. We poets in-our youth begin in gladness, But thereof comes in the end Despondency and Madness. Wariraorth, > 'Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Torgery of fancy and a dream of woes. Xan...

...number of those of whom Wordsworth thought, when he spoke " Of mighty poets in their misery dead ! We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof comes in the end despondency and madnaM ?" Mighty they may not be called by the side of the godlike — but mighty they are, compared...

...horrors of poverty and contempt, and at last ended their days in moping melancholy or moody madnesss ! " We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof...despondency and madness." Is this the fault of themselves, of nature in tempering them of too fine a clay, or of the world, that spurner of living, and patron...

...glory and in joy 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,...

...only offer our former admonition, with two lines from his favourite, Wordsworth : " Poets in their youth begin in gladness, " But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." The editor of the " New Monthly Magazine," in his number for September, has an article on Count Kostopchin's...

...parents have not yet heard that their son was a murderer. MEN OF GENIUS. A FRAGMENT. Poets in their youth begin in gladness, " But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." WORDSWORTH. THERE is no wreck which is more a sight for pity than that human ruin, an unfortunate man...

...horrors of poverty and contempt, and at last ended their days in moping melancholy or moody madness! "We poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof...despondency and madness." Is this the fault of themselves, of nature in tempering them of too fine a clay, or of the world, that spurner of living, and patron...