...from the might Of joy in minds that can no farther go, As high as we have mounted in delight In our ls, as I do. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys...At length broke under me ; and now has left me, We ixiy, The sleepless soul that perish'd in his pride ; Of him who walk'd in glory and in joy, Following...

...CHASTITY, my brother, chastity: She that has that is clad in complete steel. — Ibid. Chatterton. — I thought of CHATTERTON, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that .perished in his pride. Chaucer — Ban CHAUCER, well of English undefyled, On Fame's eternal beadroll worthie to be fyled....

...should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all? I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride ; Qf him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side : By our own...

...from the might Of joy in minds that can no further go, As high as we have mounted in delight In our dejection do we sink as low; To me that morning did...happen so; And fears and fancies thick upon me came; Dimsadness — and blind thoughts, I knew not, nor could name. (stanza IV) Coleridge ironically reverses...

...itself rushes us the nearest way. When Wordsworth writes As high as we have mounted in delight In our dejection do we sink as low, To me that morning did it happen so the third line moves us before we know it, in the exact rapidity with which it registers an experience...

...from the might Of joy in minds that can no further go. As high as we have mounted in delight In our dejection do we sink as low; To me that morning did it happen so. ... (22-26) There is undoubtedly a psychological dynamic here, reminiscent of the Boethian wheel of...

...poets who had extraordinary love and affection for this boy-poet. Wordsworth,57 in momentary dejection, thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride;58 and Shelley enthroned him among the "inheritors of unfulfilled renown," and described him...

...from the might Of joy in minds that can no further go, As high as we have mounted in delight In our dejection do we sink as low; To me that morning did...- and blind thoughts, I knew not, nor could name. V I heard the sky-lark warbling in the sky; 30 And I bethought me of the playful hare: Even such a...

...as a Boy" (1. 18), mounted "high ... in delight" (1. 24), the poet sinks into a dejection in which "fears, and fancies, thick upon me came; / Dim sadness, and blind thoughts I knew not nor could name" (11. 27-28). Beset by nameless terrors, the poet experiences not just a momentary crisis of feeling...

...when the priest at Wychwood's funeral falsifies Wordsworth's lines from "Resolution and Independence": I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride, (vii) changing them to: Thou marvellous young man, With your sleepless soul never perishing in pride.10...