Linenotes

Title] This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison. A Poem Addressed, &c. An. Anth.: the words 'Addressed to', &c., are omitted in Sibylline Leaves, 1828, 1829, and 1834.

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Well, they are gone, and here must I remain,
Lam'd by the scathe of fire, lonely and faint,
This lime-tree bower my prison! They, meantime,
My Friends, whom I may never meet again,
On springy heath, along the hill-top edge
Wander delighted, and look down, perchance,
On that same rifted dell, where many an ash
Twists its wild limbs beside the ferny rock
Whose plumy ferns forever nod and drip
Spray'd by the waterfall. But chiefly thou
My gentle-hearted Charles! thou who had pin'd

MS. Letter to Southey, July 17, 1797.

[178:A] The ferns that grow in moist places grow five or six together, and form a complete 'Prince of Wales's Feather'—that is plumy. Letter to Southey.

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Well they are gone, and here I must remain
This lime-tree, . . . hill-top edge
Delighted wander, and look down, perchance,
On that same rifted dell, where the wet ash
Twists its wild limbs above, . . . who hast pin'd

MS. Letter to Lloyd [July, 1797].

Such beauties and such feelings, as had been An. Anth., S. L.

my remembrance] to have remembered An. Anth.

My Friends, whom I may never meet again An. Anth., S. L.

blue] dim An. Anth.

tract] track An. Anth., S. L. 1828.

bark, perhaps, which lightly touches An. Anth.

hast] had'st An. Anth.

patient] bowed MS. Letter to Southey.

beams] heaven MS. Letter to Southey.

foll.

Struck with joy's deepest calm, and gazing round
On the wide view may gaze till all doth seem
Less gross than bodily; a living thing
That acts upon the mind, and with such hues
As clothe th' Almighty Spirit, when he makes.

MS. Letter to Southey.

[180:A] You remember I am a Berkleyan. Note to Letter.

wide] wild S. L.

(for wild r. wide; and the two following lines thus:

Less gross than bodily; and of such hues
As veil the Almighty Spirit

Errata, S. L., p. [xii].)

As veil the Almighty Spirit, when he makes

1828.

foll.

Less gross than bodily, a living thing
Which acts upon the mind and with such hues
As cloathe the Almighty Spirit, when he makes

An. Anth., S. L.

foll.

As I myself were there! Nor in the bower
Want I sweet sounds or pleasing shapes. I watch'd
The sunshine of each broad transparent leaf
Broke by the shadows of the leaf or stem
Which hung above it: and that walnut tree

MS. Letter to Southey.

branches] foliage MS. Letter to Southey.

and though the rapid bat MS. Letter to Southey.

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om. in MS. Letter to Lloyd.

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No scene so narrow but may well employ MS. Letter to Southey, An. Anth.

My Sister and my Friends MS. Letter to Southey: My Sara and my Friends MS. Letter to Lloyd.

Homewards] Homeward MS. Letter to Lloyd.

om. in MS. Letter to Lloyd. in the light An. Anth., S. L. (omit the before light. Errata, S. L., [p. xii]).

Cross'd like a speck the blaze of setting day MS. Letter to Southey: Had cross'd the mighty orb's dilated blase. MS. Letter to Lloyd.

While ye [you MS. Letter to Lloyd] stood MS. Letter to Southey.

thy head] your heads MSS. Letters to Southey and Lloyd.

For you my Sister and my Friends MS. Letter to Southey: For you my Sara and my Friends MS. Letter to Lloyd.