a "sovereignity within" which trained the mind to rest within "moral judgments" which could not be shaken by the sometimes ill-fated rousings of the "external universe" (Wordsworth, 1992, p. 234).
Although Wordsworth is remembered as a poet who sought to center himself in a carefully constructed and well guarded peace, he is also lauded as one of the most gifted poets in expressing grief. The much celebrated "Michael" summarizes the pain of bereavement with this economy, "There is a comfort in the strength of love;/ Twill make a thing endurable, which else/ Would break the heart" (Wordsworth, 1992, p. 160). Yet for sheer simplicity, the often anthologized "Song" which begins "She dwelt among th' untrodden ways" and quickly leads to comparing the vanished Lucy to "a Violet by a mossy stone" ranks high on the list of powerfully compressed elegaic poems (Wordsworth, 1992, p. 88). Here happiness surfaces within the balm which only poetry seems capable of offering the pierced heart.
In "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" Wordsworth craf
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