[2] 1815.
By my half-kitchen my half-parlour fire, 1807.
[3] 1827.
There do I find a never-failing store
Of personal themes, and such as I love best;
Matter wherein right voluble I am:
Two will I mention, dearer than the rest; 1807.
FOOTNOTES:
[A] This is the line referred to by Wordsworth in the Fenwick note. Compare Midsummer Night's Dream, act I. scene i. ll. 75-78.—Ed.
[B] Compare Collins, The Passions, l. 60, and An Evening Walk, l. 237 and note (vol. i. p. 22).—Ed.
[C] Compare The Prelude, book xii. l. 151 (vol. iii. p. 349)—
I knew a maid,
A young enthusiast, who escaped these bonds;
Her eye was not the mistress of her heart.Ed.
[D] Wordsworth said on one occasion, as Professor Dowden has reminded us, that he thought Othello, the close of the Phædo, and Walton's Life of George Herbert, the three "most pathetic" writings in the world.—Ed.