In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts The boughs bore leaves of green that for want of sunshine had faded into almost lily-white and from the underside of this natural sylvan bridge depended long and beautiful tresses of ivy which waved gently in the breeze that might poetically speaking be called the breath of the waterfall.' Wordsworth wrote this poem while sitting in a favorite spot, by a brook that 'fell down a sloping rock so as to make a waterfall considerable for that country, and across the pool below had fallen a tree, an ash if I rightly remember, from which rose perpendicularly, boughs in search of the light intercepted by the deep shade above. Written While Sailing in a Boat at Evening Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerlandģ8. Poems Composed or Suggested During a Tour in the Summer of 1833ģ4. To a Butterfly ('I've watched you now')ģ3. Characteristics of a Child Three Years Oldģ0. To the Small Celandine (Common Pilewort)Ģ8. Purchase AO's Volume 4 poetry collection which includes Tennyson, Dickinson, and Wordsworth in paperback or Kindle ( $amzn) ( K)ġ4.

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