WORDSWORTH' Toil, small as pigmies in the gulf profound. Bishops and Priests, think what a gulf profound. The swan uplifts his chest, and backward flings His neck, a varying arch, between his towering wings. . . Fair is the Swan, whose majesty, prevailing.... Fashions his neck into a goodly curve; An arch thrown back between luxuriant wings. The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly. Evening Walk, 163. Idle Shepherd-Boys, 69-70. Evening Walk, 218-31. Dion (original form), 1–7. P. L. vii. 438-9; cf. v. 279. (Wordsworth also speaks of the "mantling" celandine, To the Small Hear at morn The hound, the horse's tread, and mellow horn. Evening Walk, 244–5. Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering Morn. Ah me! all light is mute amid the gloom, The interlunar cavern of the tomb. "As the moon Hid in her vacant interlunar cave." The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. The "parting Genius" sighs with hollow breath. Bosomed deep in chestnut groves. Bosom'd high in lufted trees. Allegro, 53-4. Ib. (1793 ed.), 267-8. Samson, 86-9. Desc. Sketches, 71. Ib. 78. (Wordsworth uses "bosomed" three times more, twice in the sense of And neighbouring moon, that coasts the vast profound, Wheel pale and silent her diminish'd round. While overhead the moon ... Wheels her pale course. A gulf profound. Round through the vast profundity obscure. Tinged like an angel's smile all rosy red. Suffused with blushes of celestial hue. To whom the Angel, with a smile that glow'd Ib. (1793 ed.), 382-3. P. L. i. 784-6. P. L. ii. 592. P. L. vii. 229. Desc. Sketches, 475. Eccl. Sonnets, II. xxii. 5-6. P. L. viii. 618-19. 1 These parallels are nearly all taken from a collection of material regarding Wordsworth's debt to Milton, undertaken at Cornell University by Mrs. Alice M. Dunbar of Wilmington, Delaware, under the direction of Mr. Lane Cooper, who called my attention to the work. They are published here for the first time by the very kind consent of Mrs. Dunbar, whose list contains many more. Dim religious groves embow'r. Casting a dim religious light. Etrurian shades High over-arch'd embower. Desc. Sketches (1793 ed.), 124. P. L. i. 303-4. (Wordsworth also has ten cases of "embowering" and "embowered," usually of trees.) His larum-bell from village-tow'r to tow'r Swing on th'astounded ear it's dull undying roar. The solemn curfew swinging long and deep. I hear the far-off curfew sound... Swinging slow with sullen roar. Through his brain At once the griding iron passage found. When I behold the ruins of that face, Those eyeballs dark - dark beyond hope of light. Above them all the Archangel; but his face. Without all hope of day! But, oh the heavy change! And, O the change! And partner of my loss. -O heavy change! Suffer my genial spirits to decay. Could Father Adam open his eyes Redbreast chasing the Butterfly, 12-14. (A reference, as Wordsworth pointed out, to P. L. xi. 185–90.) Thou art... a thing "beneath our shoon." The dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon. To the Small Celandine (2), 49-50. (Of a flower in each case.) The beetle panoplied in gems and gold, Of radiant Urim, work divinely wrought. Gems and gold. Stanzas in "Castle of Indolence," 60-61. P. L. vi. 525-7, 760-1. (Wordsworth also has "whose panoply is not a thing put on"-"Who To overleap At will the crystal battlements... O'er Limbo lake with aëry flight to steer, And on the verge of Chaos hang in fear. Departure from Grasmere, 5-12. White, black, and grey, with all their trumpery. . . . The sport of winds: all these, upwhirl'd aloft . Stern Daughter of the Voice of God! God so commanded, and left that command A watchful heart Still couchant. Changes oft His couchant watch. ... Eccl. Sonnets, II. xxviii. 6-9. P. L. iv. 181-2. P. L. ii. 407. P. L. ii. 917-19. P. L. iii. 474-5, 490–5. Ode to Duty, I. P. L. ix. 652-3. (Wordsworth also speaks of a "couchant" lion, fawn, doe: To Enterprise, 35; "Long has the dew," 5; White Doe, i. 203.) Alas! what boots it? who can hide? Alas! what boots the long laborious quest? "What boots," continued she, "to mourn?" What boots the sculptured tomb? Alas! what boots it with uncessant care? The gift of this adventurous song. Invoke thy aid to my advent'rous song. The earth is all before me. The world was all before them. Immortal verse Thoughtfully fitted to the Orphean lyre. With other notes than to the Orphean lyre I sung. Hence life, and change, and beauty, solitude Her pealing organ was my neighbour too. The Waggoner, 702. Tyrolese Sonnets, iv. 1. Egyptian Maid, 97. Excursion, vi. 615. The Waggoner, 784.. Prelude, i. 14. Ib. i. 232-3. Excursion, vii. 535-6. To the Clouds, 60-61. Prelude, i. 511. Ib. ii. 294-5. Prelude, iii. 57. A pensive sky, sad days, and piping winds. That seemed another morn Risen on mid noon. The mountains more by blackness visible Lead his voice through many a maze. Tract more exquisitely fair Than that famed paradise of ten thousand trees, Spot more delicious than those gardens feign'd And boon nature's lavish help. Of mountain-quiet and boon nature's grace. But Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain. Ib. vi. 174. Ib. vi. 197-8. Ib. vi. 714-15. Ib. viii. 75-7. P. L. ix. 439-41. Ib. viii. 81. Eccl. Sonnets, I. i. 4. P. L. iv. 242-3. Prelude, viii. 560-65. The curious traveller . . . sees, or thinks he sees. The mind of Adam, yet in Paradise Though fallen from bliss, when in the East he saw Ib. viii. 658–64. (Wordsworth also uses "empyrean" twice as an adjective; Milton has it five times as a noun and once as an adjective.) His genius shook the buskined stage. Her duty is to stand and wait. They also serve who only stand and wait. But ere the Moon had sunk to rest Of his [the sun's] chamber in the east. With woollen cincture. With feather'd cincture. Ib. vii. 57. P. L. ix. 1117. (Of clothing in each case. Wordsworth also has "encincture": Source of Danube, 8; Excursion, v. 159; Eccl. Sonnets, III. xli. 9.) |