[31] [Fragment Loving and Liking; “Dear Child I would not still be teaching”]

[Page f.55v]

Dear Child I would not still be teaching
Nor would I tire you out with with long preaching
Then kindly take my plain directions
Then burden with my plain directions
To regulate your young affections5


 

addressed to a Child
Say not you love a roasted fowl x x addressed to a Child.
There’s more in words than I can teach,
But listen, Child! - I would not preach;
Yet would I give some plain directions10
To regulate guide your speech & your affections


 

Say not you love a roasted fowl
But you may love &c. &c.
 

[Page f.57r]

That store the mind, the memory feed
[Word(s) hidden by wax] prompt to many a gentle deeds:
But likings come and pass away
‘Tis love that remains till our latest day:
Our guide to Heaven is Holy Love;
It is our bliss with Saints above.
Our heaven-ward guide is holy love
[Word(s) hidden by wax] our will be bliss with Saints above
And it will be bliss with Saints above.


 

Loving & liking are the solace of life
They foster all joy & extinguish all strife.
By liking a friendship may grow out of strife;
But love is the sunshine & starlight of life!


 

Loving & liking are the solace of life
They foster all joy and extinguish all strife

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Introduction to Poems from the Commonplace Book (DCMS 120)
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Table of Contents: Ordering the Commonplace Book Poems (DCMS 120)
Michelle Levy
Table of Contents 1A: Starting from Front Cover
Michelle Levy
Table of Contents 1B: Starting from Back Cover
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Table of Contents 2: Sorted by Poem (from Its First Appearance in the Notebook)
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[1] [A Two Fold Harmony is Here]
[2] Lines addressed to Joanna Hutchinson from Gwerndovenant June 1826
[3] [Version A]
[4] A Holiday at Gwerndovennant Irregular Stanzas [Version B]
[5] Grasmere - A Fragment [Version A]
[6] [Lines written (rather say begun)]
[7] A Sketch
[8] A Cottage in Grasmere Vale A Fragment [Version B of Grasmere - A Fragment]
[9] After recollections at sight of the same Cottage. [Version C of Grasmere - A Fragment]
[10] A Winter's Ramble in Grasmere Vale [Version D of Grasmere - A Fragment]
[11] To Julia Marshall - A Fragment [Version A]
[12] Lines intended for my Niece's Album [Version A]
[13] To Dora Wordsworth [Version B of "Lines intended for my Niece's Album"]
[14] Lines intended for Edith Southey's album
[15] Floating Island at Hawkhead, An Incident in the schemes of Nature
[16] Thoughts on my sickbed
[17] [Irregular Verses] [Version B of To Julia Marshall—A Fragment]
[18] To E.C.
[19] Fragment Christmas-day –
[20] [Untitled Fragment]
[21] Fragments Xmas day
[22] [Version B of "Lines Written (rather say begun)"].
[23] To D.
[24] [Lines written (rather say begun) on the morning of Sunday April 6th, the third approach of Spring-time since my illness began. It was a morning of surpassing beauty. [Version C of “Lines Written (rather say begun)”]
[25] On a most beautiful Sunday morning, April 1824 [Version D of "Lines written (rather say begun)"]
[26] [Version E of "Lines written (rather say begun)"]
[27] [Version F of "Lines written (rather say begun)"]
[28] To. ["To things the fairest in this world"]
[29] [To Sarah Foxcroft's Infant]
[30] ["When shall I tread your garden path?"]
[31] [Fragment Loving and Liking; “Dear Child I would not still be teaching”]
[32] Lines written (rather begun) on the morning of Sunday, April 6th, the third approach of Spring-time since my illnes began. [Version G of "Lines written (rather say begun)"]
[33] Loving & Liking [Version B or "Loving and Liking. Irregular verses addressed to a child.]
[34] Lines to Dora H. [Version A]
[35] Lines to Dora H. [Version B]
[36] Liking and Loving – Irregular Verses, addressed to a Child [Version C of “Loving and Liking”]
[37] A Tribute to the memory of the Revd John Curwen