[3] Compare Keats, Miscellaneous Poems—
There crept
A little noiseless noise amongst the leaves
Born of the very sigh that silence heaves. Ed.
And Coleridge, The Æolian Harp—
The stilly murmur of the distant sea
Tells us of silence. Ed.
[4] Mr. Bartholemew rented Alfoxden, and sub-let the house to Wordsworth.—Ed.
[5] This house was afterwards John Kenyon's,—to whom Aurora Leigh is dedicated,—and was subsequently the residence of the Rev. William Nichols, author of The Quantocks and their Associations.—Ed.
[6] Of Nether-Stowey, the agent of the Earl of Egmont.—Ed.
[7] Compare The Recluse, 1. 91—
Her Voice was like a hidden Bird that sang. Ed.
[8] Did this suggest the lines in Christabel?—