...and wide He travelled, stirring thus about his feet The waters of the pools where they abide. " Once I could meet with them on every side, But they have...decay Yet .still I persevere, and find them where I i_ iv." While he was talking thus, the lonely place, The old man's shape and speech — all troubled...

...wide He travelled ; stirring thus about his feet The waters of the pools where they abide. ' ' Once I could meet with them on every side; But they have...by slow decay; Yet still I persevere, and find them when; I may." XIX While he was talking thus, the lonely place, The old Man's shape, and speech —...

...and wide He travelled; stirring thus about his feet The waters of the pools where they abide. "Once I could meet with them on every side; But they have...Yet still I persevere, and find them where I may." XIX. While he was talking thus, the lonely place, The old Man's shape, and speech — all troubled...

...the leech-gatherer directly recorded in the poem. Referring to leeches, he says, 'Once I could meet them on every side; But they have dwindled long by...Yet still I persevere, and find them where I may'. (11. 124-126) Like Wordsworth, and by implication Coleridge, the leech-gatherer acknowledges a significant...

...and wide He travelled; stirring thus about his feet The waters of the ponds where they abide. "Once I could meet with them on every side, But they have...moors continually, Wandering about alone and silently. 3 " BL (1817) om'ts comma 1 Resolution and Independence flood". The final three lines were (1802; pub...

...wisdom, that of the child or sage or Druid, which temporarily abashes the self-confident modern man: In my mind's eye I seemed to see him pace About the...moors continually Wandering about alone and silently. It is because he could still write the Preface and a poem about a leechgatherer that Wordsworth went...

...Independence, devoted to the gathering of leeches, whether there be leeches in the world to gather or not: "they have dwindled long by slow decay; / Yet still I persevere, and find them where I may" (125-26). There is an obvious line of continuity stretching between the Romantic Wordsworth who creates...

...Thomas's country figures for us to remember in an attempt to define our contemporary poet's methods: In my mind's eye I seemed to see him pace About the...moors continually Wandering about alone and silently. This very inclination of RS Thomas's toward mental fictions, such as is highlighted by comparison with...

...and wide He travelled; stirring thus about his feet The waters of the pools where they abide. 'Once I could meet with them on every side; But they have...Yet still I persevere, and find them where I may.' XIX While he was talking thus, the lonely place, The old Man's shape, and speech - all troubled me:...

...and labour" press upon him? To persevere in the face of possible misery and failure: "[the leeches] have dwindled long by slow decay; / Yet still I persevere, and find them where I may" (122, 132-33; Poems 128-29). Ironically the narrator, who has long lived life as a lark — "My whole...