Melancholy

[Nightshade]

Theres a poem that keeps almost going my head I know it was written by a william ( blake or wordsworth but I always confuse the 2)
it ws the first time I ever met the word melancholy and heard it spoken at the same time so it sticks in my mind. It was about the authour as a child or someone young walking in the fields and there was a woman singing a melanchly song then he goes up a hill.

Does anyone have any idea what Im on about?

[AimusSage]

Could it be this one:

The Solitary Reaper - William Wordsworth

Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.

No nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands:
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard
In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.

Will no one tell me what she sings?
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago:
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of today?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
That has been, and may be again!

Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work,
And o'er the sickle bending;
I listened, motionless and still;
And as I mounted up the hill
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.

[Nightshade]

yupp, I knew it was a william :nod: Thanks:D now I can toss it out of my head.


And as I mounted up the hill
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more this was what was going round my head ...:nod:

[Madhuri]

I like this poem too :nod: Read it in my school. I learnt it by heart that time :D