 My horse moved on; hoof after hoof He raised, and never stopped : When down behind the cottage roof, At once, the bright moon dropped. What fond and wayward thoughts will slide Into a lover's head! "O mercy!" to myself I cried, "If Lucy should be dead!  At Nightfall and Midnight: Musings After Dark - Page 64by Francis Jacox - 1873 - 466 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Brian G. Caraher - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 293 pages
...the ballad to its fitful climax. The speaker has fallen into reverie as he rides toward Lucy's home: "In one of those sweet dreams I slept, / Kind Nature's gentlest boon." This dreamy state recalls "A slumber," but this sleep is a sweeter and a gentler one: a lover's reverie... | |
 | Susan Eilenberg - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 302 pages
...fix'd my eye, All over the wide lea; My horse trudg'd on, and we drew nigh Those paths so dear to me. In one of those sweet dreams I slept, Kind Nature's...while, my eyes I kept On the descending moon. My horse mov'd on; hoof after hoof He rais'd and never stopp'd: When down behind the cottage roof At once the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...horse drew nigh Those paths so dear to me. And now we reached the orchard-plot; And, as we climbed the hill, The sinking moon to Lucy's cot Came near,...Nature's gentlest boon! And all the while my eyes I kept 20 On the descending moon. My horse moved on; hoof after hoof He raised, and never stopped: When down... | |
 | Shawn James Rosenheim, Stephen Rachman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 388 pages
...horse drew nigh Those paths so dear to me. And now we reached the orchard-plot; And, as we climbed the hill, The sinking moon to Lucy's cot Came near,...on; hoof after hoof He raised, and never stopped: When down behind the cottage roof, At once, the bright moon dropped. What fond and wayward thoughts... | |
 | G. Kim Blank - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 284 pages
...dreams I slept, Kind nature's gentlest boon, And all the while my eyes I kept On the descending moon. 5 My horse moved on; hoof after hoof He raised and never stopped, When down behind the cottage roof At once the planet dropp'd. 6 Strange are the fancies that will slide... | |
 | Derek Attridge - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 300 pages
...means of a double offbeat. Here are examples in four-beat and five-beat verse: x / IL [x]/ xx / (33) My horse moved on; hoof after hoof He raised and never stopped. . . (34) The sea lay laughing at a distance; near, x/x/x /[x]/ x/ The solid mountains shone, bright... | |
 | Ronald Simons - Psychology - 1996 - 287 pages
...intrusion. The sudden unexpected disappearance of the moon somehow precipitates the specific morbid thought. My horse moved on: hoof after hoof He raised and never stopped: When down behind the Cottage roof At once the bright moon dropped. What fond and wayward thoughts will... | |
 | Wim Tigges - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 500 pages
...the disappearance of the moon with the possibility of Lucy's death. Here are the last three stanzas: In one of those sweet dreams I slept, Kind nature's...on; hoof after hoof He raised, and never stopped: When down behind the cottage roof, 11. See Browning's letter to Ruskin (10 December 1855), in which... | |
 | Matthew Campbell - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 292 pages
...carrying itself in a sad mechanic imitation of the movement of the poet's horse along a well-known route: My horse moved on: hoof after hoof He raised and never stopped: When down behind the cottage roof, At once, the bright moon dropped.21 'Hoof after hoof / He raised... | |
 | Emma Driver - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 150 pages
...pebbles as they are beaten in unison in Ryzak's death ritual. Key quotes Wordsworth An Imaginary Life In one of those sweet dreams I slept, Kind Nature's gentlest boon! (SF, 17-18) Our winter dream begins. (Ill) It may be the heaviness of the air, or some slowing of the... | |
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