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" THE REVERIE OF POOR SUSAN. AT the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a thrush that sings loud — it has sung for three years ; Poor Susan has passed by the spot, and has heard In the silence of morning the song of the bird. Tis a note... "
A School Reader - Page 199
by Fanny E. Coe - 1908
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Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All ..., Volume 1

1923 - 748 pages
...farther, all the birds Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. EDWARD THOMAS 105 THE REVERIE OF POOR SUSAN AT the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears,...mountain ascending, a vision of trees; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside. Green pastures she...
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Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning, Volume 10

Owen Barfield - 1973 - 244 pages
...produces a similar atmosphere in the following beautiful quatrain from The Reverie of Poor Susan : ' Tis a note of enchantment; what ails her? She sees...mountain ascending, a vision of trees; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale ofCheapside. And in our own day...
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Home at Grasmere: Part First, Book First, of The Recluse

William Wordsworth - 1977 - 308 pages
...experience with her childhood in the country: At the corner of Wood-Street, when day-light appears, There's a Thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years: Poor Susan has pass'd by the spot and has heard In the silence of morning the song of the bird. Tis a note of enchantment;...
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Vision and Disenchantment: Blake's Songs and Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads

Heather Glen, Senior Lecturer Faculty of English Cambridge University and Fellow of New Hall Heather Glen - 1983 - 420 pages
...more conventional narrative standpoint: At the corner of Wood-Street, when day-light appears, There's a Thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years: Poor Susan has pass'd by the spot and has heard In the silence of morning the song of the bird. The opening definite...
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Aesthetic Illusion: Theoretical and Historical Approaches

Frederick Burwick, Walter Pape, University of California (System). Humanities Research Institute - 1990 - 494 pages
...ironically, "At the corner of Wood Street" — partly sustains her and partly dramatizes her plight: "Tis a note of enchantment; what ails her? She sees...mountain ascending, a vision of trees; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside. [...]. She looks,...
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Reading Romantics: Texts and Contexts

Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 pages
...of a bird triggers one London morning: At the corner of Wood-Street, when day-light appears, There's a Thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years: Poor Susan has pass'd by the spot and has heard In the silence of morning the song of the bird. Tis a note of enchantment;...
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Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture

Leslie C. Dunn, Nancy A. Jones - 1994 - 278 pages
...move from country to city. What prompts Susan's reverie of lost pastoral innocence is a thrush's song: At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears,...mountain ascending, a vision of trees; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside. (Works, p. 149)...
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Selected Poems

William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...pastoral landscape, were to me More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake! The Reverie of Poor Susan At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears,...mountain ascending, a vision of trees; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside. Green pastures she...
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The Passion of Meter: A Study of Wordsworth's Metrical Art

Brennan O'Donnell - 1995 - 316 pages
...appropriately, enchanting in its own right: At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, There's a Thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years: Poor Susan has pass'd by the spot and has heard In the silence of morning the song of the bird. Tis a note of enchantment...
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Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction

Derek Attridge - 1995 - 300 pages
...offbeat: XX / XX / / X/XX / (64) At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, / X / X / / XX / X Hangs a thrush that sings loud, it has sung for / / three years . . . X / XX / XX / /X /X (65) Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; x/xx / xx / xx /x The days...
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