...— Wordsworth somewhere has expressed what he thought or hoped might be the destiny of his poems : " To console the afflicted; to add sunshine to daylight,...and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous : this is their office." And again, " There is scarcely one which does not aim to...

...you, my dear friend, as easy-hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself upon their present reception; of what moment is that compared with what I trust is their destiny ? — to con Bole the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier; to teach the young...

...of Religious, or Christian Poetry—Poetry which, as Wordsworth desired for his own verse, may serve "to console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight,...and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous."—It is Religious Poetry, in no narrow, technical sense of the word ; but amidst...

...this with the unfaltering conviction that his own works would not perish, but that they would live " to console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier; to teach the yoiing and gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more actively...

...his Poems is the truest, and the most worthy ; — he gives it in a letter to Lady Beaumont : — " To console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier ; to lead the young and the gracious of every "ago to see, to think, to feel, and to become more actively...

...anticipations. " Of what moment is the present reception of these poems," he wrote to Lady Beaumont, "compared with what I trust is their destiny ? To...every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to be more actively and securely virtuous, — this is their office, which I trust they will faithfully...

...noble language of Wordsworth, to make men better and wiser ; to console the atllicted; to add sunlight to daylight, by making the happy happier; to teach...young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, to feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous. The first book consists of three...

...composition of his poems. In a letter to Lady Beaumont (May 21, 1807) he says, " Trouble not yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that compared...and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous; this is their office, which I trust they will faithfully perform long-after we (that...

...with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself upon their present reception : of what moment-is that, compared with what I trust is their destiny...young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, und feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous — this is their office, which...

...the verdict of the " Edinburgh " was all but omnipotent — he replied : " Trouble not yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that compared...making the happy happier ; to teach the young and gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and, therefore, to become more actively and securely...