...else forlorn and blind ! 6 "Up ! up ! and drink the spirit breathed From dead men to their kind. " You look round on your Mother Earth, As if she for no purpose bore you ; 10 As if you were her first-born birth, And none had lived before you ! " * One morning thus, by...

...Beings else forlorn and blind ! Up ! up ! and drink the spirit breathed From dead men to their kind. You look round on your Mother Earth; As if she for...her first-born birth, And none had lived before you I' One morning thus, by Esthwaite lake, When life was sweet, I knew not why, To me my good friend Matthew...

...Beings else forlorn and blind! Up ! up ! and drink the spirit breathed From dead men to their kind. You look round on your Mother Earth, As if she for...were her first-born birth, And none had lived before youl' One morning thus, by Esthwaite lake, When life was sweet, I knew not why, To me my good friend...

...Beings else forlorn and blind ! Up ! up ! and drink the spirit breathed From dead men to their kind. You look round on your Mother Earth, As if she for...you were her first-born birth, And none had lived befare youl' One morning thus, by Esthwaite lake, When life was sweet, I knew not why, To me my good...

...Beings else forlorn and blind ! Up ! up ! and drink the spirit breathed From dead men to their kind. 'You look round on your Mother Earth, As if she for no purpose bore you; 10 As if you were her first-born birth, And none had lived before you!' One morning thus, by Esthwaite...

...wonder of living. He sits, as by Esthwaite lake, in the mood described in his own Expostulation: — You look round on your Mother Earth, As if she for...her first-born birth, And none had lived before you. Poetry to Wordsworth meant this mood of wonder and acceptance and delight, whereby the intellectual...

...the human race. "You look round on your Mother Earth," in Wordsworth's half-ironic self-description, As if you were her first-born birth, And none had lived before you! 'Among early men, Novalis said, "there was freshness and originality in all their perceptions"; and...

...beings else forlorn and blind! 'Up! Up! and drink the spirit breath'd 'From dead men to their kind. 'You look round on your mother earth, 'As if she for...first-born birth, 'And none had lived before you!' ('Expostulation and Reply') One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man; Of moral evil...

...forlorn and blind! Up! Up! and drink the spirit breath'd From dead men to their kind. "You look around on your mother earth, As if she for no purpose bore...first-born birth, And none had lived before you!" [1-12] Although one might wonder about the relation of the third stanza to the two that precede it,...

...away." His reverie is devoid of cause and effect or of what Keats was to call "consequitive reasoning" ("You look round on your mother earth, / As if she for no purpose bore you"), and it appears to be thoughdess ("When life was sweet I knew not why"). Yet he says it is full, not...