...thousands, but as one More deeply grieved, for He was gone Whose light I hailed when f1rst it shone And showed my youth How Verse may build a princely throne On humble truth. But what is interesting here is how Wordsworth both praises Burns as his literary predecessor and also...

...the obscurest, in the low And silent grave. Well might I mourn that he was gone, Whose light I hail'd when first it shone, When, breaking forth as nature's...verse may build a princely throne On humble truth. Alas ! where'er the current tends, Regret pursues and with it blends,— Huge Criffel's hoary top ascends...

...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell. 7. Wordsworth said of Burns, " he showed my youth How verse may build a princely throne On humble truth." Comment upon this, illustrating your answer from the poems of the 18th century given in the Qolden...

...utterance. Wordsworth, at his graveside in 18o3, mourned one Whose light I hailed when first it shone, And showed my youth How Verse may build a princely throne On humble truth. He remains irrevocably Scotland's national poet. Burns was born at Alloway, near Ayr, on January 25,...

...influence of the ploughman "poet, — for he was gone Whose light I hailed when first it shone. And showed my youth, How verse may build a princely throne On humble truth. Wordsworth does not depict the strong passions, intense love, hate, despair ; but deals rather with...

...thousands, but as one More deeply grieved ; for he was gone Whose light I hailed when first it shone And showed my youth How Verse may build a princely .throne On humble truth. Is it conceivable that he could have felt like that towards Burns if the latter had produced nothing...