...Out of Collins's, too, they had omitted his delicious ode upon Thomson's death ; what music it is ! " Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore, When Thames...is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar, To bid thy gentle spirit rest." To those from Cowper I added one, which I had myself forgot, but which is...

...Out of Collins's, too, they had omitted his delicious ode upon Thomson's death ; what music it is ! " Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore, When Thames...wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar, To bill thy gentle spirit rest." To those from Cowper I added one, which I had myself forgot, but which...

...sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in Pity's ear To hear the Woodland Pilgrim's knell. IV. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames...suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest ! v. And oft as Ease and Health retire To breezy lawn, or forest deep, The friend shall view yon whitening...

...Thomson but for Collins.' 11. 33, 34 recall stanza iv. of Collins's Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson : Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames...suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest. EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY (page 113). Composed 1798. In the Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads, 1798, Wordsworth...

...sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in Pity's ear To hear the Woodland Pilgrim's knell. IV. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames...suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest ! v. And oft as Ease and Health retire To breezy lawn, or forest deep, The friend shall view yon whitening...

...Richmond, James Thomson, on whoso death in August, 1748, he wrote the pathetic ode containing these lines : Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore, When Thames...suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest In 1749 he addressed his Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands, his last surviving work,...

...its sounds at distance swell, 10 Shall sadly seem in pity's ear To hear the woodland pilgrim's knell. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames...wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar, 15 To bid his gentle spirit rest ! And oft, as ease and health retire To breezy lawn, or forest deep,...

...its sounds at distance swell, 10 Shall sadly seem in pity's ear To hear the woodland pilgrim's knell. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames...wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar, 15 To bid his gentle spirit rest ! And oft, as ease and health retire To breezy lawn, or forest deep,...

...wrote the lovely Elegy which immortalises them both. " Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore Where Thames in summer wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest." No poet has struck more truly the note of the Thames valley and stream — that note, as a later Oxford...

...ode containing these lines : Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore, When Thames in summer wreaths la drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest In 1749 he addressed his Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands, his last surviving work,...