Poems in 2 Vols., Reprinted Original Ed. of 1807 Ed. with Note on the Wordsworthian Sonnet by Thos. Hutchinson, Volume 2David Nutt, 1807 |
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... alter'd Form , Now standing forth an offering to the Blast , And buffetted at will by Rain and Storm . I stopp'd , and said with inly muttered voice , " It doth not love the shower , nor seek the cold : This neither is it's courage nor ...
... alter'd Form , Now standing forth an offering to the Blast , And buffetted at will by Rain and Storm . I stopp'd , and said with inly muttered voice , " It doth not love the shower , nor seek the cold : This neither is it's courage nor ...
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... altered 1. 58 ( stanza xiv . ) to : " Through summer heat and winter snow , " doubtless to avoid the clashing sibilants in " winter's snow ; " but he dis- approved strongly of the lax use in poetry of sub- stantives in the place of ...
... altered 1. 58 ( stanza xiv . ) to : " Through summer heat and winter snow , " doubtless to avoid the clashing sibilants in " winter's snow ; " but he dis- approved strongly of the lax use in poetry of sub- stantives in the place of ...
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... altered to : " A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard . " These changes were effected to get rid of the ' sweetly ' and ' sweeter ' of 11. 10 and 13. Wordsworth's original text teems with ' sweet ' and its derivatives , nor was it until ...
... altered to : " A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard . " These changes were effected to get rid of the ' sweetly ' and ' sweeter ' of 11. 10 and 13. Wordsworth's original text teems with ' sweet ' and its derivatives , nor was it until ...
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... altered . " The Sun has long been set " ( page 41 ) .- Composed June 8 , 1802 ( D. W. ) . These Moods of my own Mind proved , as the Poet foresaw , a stone of stumb . ling to all and sundry . The critic of the Eclectic Review ( Jan ...
... altered . " The Sun has long been set " ( page 41 ) .- Composed June 8 , 1802 ( D. W. ) . These Moods of my own Mind proved , as the Poet foresaw , a stone of stumb . ling to all and sundry . The critic of the Eclectic Review ( Jan ...
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... alter the epithet ' fiery ' here ( 1. 2 ) to ' ebullient , ' in 1815 ; but in 1820 the original word ( as Crabb Robinson had fore- told ) was restored , and in 1845 quotes were added to indicate that there was authority for the phrase ...
... alter the epithet ' fiery ' here ( 1. 2 ) to ' ebullient , ' in 1815 ; but in 1820 the original word ( as Crabb Robinson had fore- told ) was restored , and in 1845 quotes were added to indicate that there was authority for the phrase ...
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Page 148 - The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose ; The Moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare ; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair ; The Sunshine is a glorious birth ; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Page 149 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong ; I hear the echoes through the mountains throng, The winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay : Land and sea...
Page 158 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 150 - But there's a Tree, of many, one, A single Field which I have looked upon, Both of them speak of something that is gone: The pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat: Whither is fled the visionary gleam?
Page 122 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares—- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Page 155 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Page 167 - And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places : thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations ; and thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Page 152 - mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes...
Page 157 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower...
Page 156 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.