"We'll frame the measure of our souls, / They shall be tuned to love"
— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date
1798
Metaphor
"We'll frame the measure of our souls, / They shall be tuned to love"
Metaphor in Context
One moment now may give us more
Than fifty years of reason;
Our minds shall drink at every pore
The spirit of the season.
Some silent laws our hearts may make,
Which they shall long obey;
We for the year to come may take
Our temper from to-day.
And from the blessed power that rolls
About, below, above;
We'll frame the measure of our souls,
They shall be tuned to love.
Than fifty years of reason;
Our minds shall drink at every pore
The spirit of the season.
Some silent laws our hearts may make,
Which they shall long obey;
We for the year to come may take
Our temper from to-day.
And from the blessed power that rolls
About, below, above;
We'll frame the measure of our souls,
They shall be tuned to love.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
3 entries in ESTC (1798, 1800).
See Lyrical Ballads With a Few Other Poems (Bristol: Printed by Biggs and Cottle, for T. N. Longman, Paternoster-Row, London, 1798). <Link to ESTC>
See also Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems. (London: Printed for J. & A. Arch, Gracechurch-Street, 1798). <Link to ESTC>
See Lyrical Ballads With a Few Other Poems (Bristol: Printed by Biggs and Cottle, for T. N. Longman, Paternoster-Row, London, 1798). <Link to ESTC>
See also Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems. (London: Printed for J. & A. Arch, Gracechurch-Street, 1798). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
09/29/2006
