 | Music - 1896 - 710 pages
...Word that shall not pass away." The poem called " Resolution and Independence" begins in this way: "There was a roaring in the wind all night, The rain...the magpie chatters, And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters." In the "Evening Voluntaries" we find these expressions: "The busy dor-hawk... | |
 | William H. Wintringham - Birds in literature - 1892 - 446 pages
...and busily retrim Their nests, or chant a gratulating hymn To the blue ether and bespangled plain." "There was a roaring in the wind all night ; The rain...in the distant woods, Over his own sweet voice the stock dove broods ; The jay makes answer as the magpie chatters ; And all the air is filled with pleasant... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1892 - 362 pages
...And all the congregation sing A Christian psalm for thee. 1799. XXII. RESOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE. i. THERE was a roaring in the wind all night ; The rain...bright ; The birds are singing in the distant woods ; 4 Over his own sweet voice the Stock-dove broods; The Jay makes answer as the Magpie chatters; And... | |
 | Bill Moore - Cooking - 1987 - 180 pages
...Wordsworth, who lived in the Lake District of England, where it rains and is windy much of the time, wrote: There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily, and fell in floods, . . . The hare is running races in her mirth And with her feet, she from the plashy earth Raises a... | |
 | Richard Eldridge - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 236 pages
...expression of the poet's sense that nature is there to be comprehended through the use of the senses ("There was a roaring in the wind all night; / The rain came heavily and fell in floods"25). Now nature is intelligibly present to him. Where once there was a roaring, now there are... | |
 | John Hollander - Poetry - 1990 - 280 pages
...placed below them. So with the sounds at the beginning of Wordsworth's "Resolution and Independence": The birds are singing in the distant woods; Over his...the Magpie chatters; And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters. [4-7] — where the water sound underlies and underscores the others in a... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...for me, If there be but three or four Who will love my little Flower. Resolution and Independence I There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain...the Magpie chatters; And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters. II All things that love the sun are out of doors; The sky rejoices in the... | |
 | Ira Livingston - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 276 pages
...sunrise, which comprises a traffic between species and even between living and nonliving processes as "the Jay makes answer as the Magpie chatters; / And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters" (Wordsworth 1969, 155). As in Blake's first "Nurse's Song" (or in the utopian... | |
 | Kirsten Malmkjær, John Williams - Foreign Language Study - 1998 - 212 pages
...salient positions: it marks openings, climaxes and conclusions. Wordsworth's practice is typical: 8 There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain...the Magpie chatters; And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters. (from Resolution and Independence, 1807) This poem opens with a contrast... | |
 | American literature - 1913 - 1112 pages
...rather than of welcome. Shortly after the appearance of Wordsworth's "Resolution and Independence," There was a roaring in the wind all night. The rain came heavily and fell in floods, some one read aloud the poem to an intelligent woman. She burst into tears, but recovering herself,... | |
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There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily and fell in floods; But now the sun is rising calm and bright; The birds are singing in the distant woods; Over his own sweet voice the Stock-dove broods; The Jay makes answer as the Magpie... 
