 Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched. And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none. Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 2481819Full view - About this book
 | Peter J. Manning - Religion - 1990 - 326 pages
...his absence, the voice whose affect the Pedlar "cannot tell," are counterparts of his great vision: "The clouds were touched / And in their silent faces did he read / Unutterable love" (MS. B, 126-28).20 The comments already suggested by the oral imagery of the entire passage are extended... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 587 pages
...mountains he beheld the sun 220 Rise up, and bathe the world in light. He looked; The ocean and the earth beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy. The clouds...Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy: his spirit drank The spectacle; sensation, soul, and form All melted into him; they swallowed... | |
 | John Rieder - Poetry - 1997 - 273 pages
...of "love of nature leading to love of man" in the pedlar's biography in 3a: The Ocean and the earth beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy. The clouds...And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable joy. (Ms. B 9r, 157) Peter Manning, who reads "Incipient Madness" as the "germ" of The Ruined Cottage... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1834 - 351 pages
...his, when on the tops Of the high mountains he beheld the sun Else up, and bathe the world in light 1 He looked— Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth,...read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice-of joy : his spirit drank The spectacle ! sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him; they... | |
 | Leverhulme Special Research Fellow Uttara Natarajan, Uttara Natarajan, Tom Paulin, Duncan Wu, G M Young Lecturer in English Literature Tom Paulin, Professor of English Language and Literature Duncan Wu - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 188 pages
...not the Unitarian God, then at least the 'living God' encountered at epiphanic moments by the Pedlar: The clouds were touched, And in their silent faces...Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy: his spirit drank The spectacle. Sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him; they swallowed... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - Literary Collections - 2005 - 555 pages
...growing Youth What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld die sun Rise up and bathe the world in light! He looked — Ocean...the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, in gladness lay Beneadi him: — far and wide the clouds were touched, And in their silent faces could... | |
 | D. J. Moores - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 248 pages
...mountains he beheld the sun Rise up, and they die world in life. He looked; The ocean and the earth beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy. The clouds...Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy: his spirit drank The spectacle; sensation, soul, and form All melted into him; they swallowed... | |
 | Stephen Gill - Literary Collections - 2006 - 406 pages
...(halfmoon). A matter of weeks later Wordsworth was to write of the Pedlar's universe of blessedness and joy, The clouds were touched, And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love . . . (Pedlar, 99-101) but at this point feeling is not yet identified with perception of the One Life.... | |
 | Florence Gaillet-de Chezelles - Walking in literature - 2007 - 423 pages
...s'accoler les unes aux autres : He looked, The ocean and the earth heneath him lay Ingladness and deepjoy. The clouds were touched And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love. Sound he needed none Nor any voice ofjoy: his spirit drank The spectacle. Sensation, soul andform Ail melted... | |
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