1. Perhaps the deepest impress of the Wordsworthian influence is to be found in the little poem _Frost at Midnight_, with its affecting apostrophe to the sleeping infant at his side--infant destined to develop as wayward a genius and to lead as restless and irresolute a life as his father. Its closing lines-- "Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness... ... whether the eave-drops fall, Heard only in the trances of the blast, Or if the secret ministry of frost Shall hang them up in silent icicles Quietly shining to the quiet moon"-- might have flowed straight from the pen of Wordsworth himself. 2. "You had a great loss in not seeing Coleridge. He is a wonderful man. His conversation teems with soul, mind, and spirit. Then he is so benevolent, so good tempered and cheerful, and, like William, interests himself so much about every little trifle. At first I thought him very plain, that is, for about three minutes; he is pale, thin, has a wide mouth, thick lips, and not very good teeth, longish loose-growing half-curling rough black hair. But if you hear him speak for five minutes you think no more of them. His eye is large and full, and not very dark but gray, such an eye as would receive from a heavy soul the dullest expression; but it speaks every emotion of his animated mind: it has more of the poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling than I ever witnessed. He has fine dark eyebrows and an overhanging forehead." 3. The lines-- "And it is long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand."