The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 2W. Paterson, 1882 - English poetry |
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... shall to you reveal How earth and heaven are taught to feel The might of magic lore ! " " My little vagrant Form of light , My gay and beautiful Canoe , Well have you played your friendly part ; As kindly 6 PETER BELL .
... shall to you reveal How earth and heaven are taught to feel The might of magic lore ! " " My little vagrant Form of light , My gay and beautiful Canoe , Well have you played your friendly part ; As kindly 6 PETER BELL .
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... beautiful November night , When the full moon was shining bright Upon the rapid river Swale , Along the river's winding banks Peter was travelling all alone ; Whether to buy or sell , or led By pleasure running in his head , To me was ...
... beautiful November night , When the full moon was shining bright Upon the rapid river Swale , Along the river's winding banks Peter was travelling all alone ; Whether to buy or sell , or led By pleasure running in his head , To me was ...
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... beautiful the vale Where he was born . 1827 . Fair are the woods , and beauteous is the spot The vale where he was born . 1843 . ( Returning to 1800. ) In the Prelude the version of 1827 is adopted . 3 1836 . And there , along that bank ...
... beautiful the vale Where he was born . 1827 . Fair are the woods , and beauteous is the spot The vale where he was born . 1843 . ( Returning to 1800. ) In the Prelude the version of 1827 is adopted . 3 1836 . And there , along that bank ...
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... beautiful , and leave an affecting impression . That Uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake , I should have recognised anywhere ; and had I met these lines running wild in the deserts of Arabia , I should have ...
... beautiful , and leave an affecting impression . That Uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake , I should have recognised anywhere ; and had I met these lines running wild in the deserts of Arabia , I should have ...
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... beautiful a sun , So sad a sigh has brought ? " A second time did Matthew stop ; And fixing still his eye Upon the eastern mountain - top , To me he made reply : " Yon cloud with that long purple cleft Brings fresh into my mind . A day ...
... beautiful a sun , So sad a sigh has brought ? " A second time did Matthew stop ; And fixing still his eye Upon the eastern mountain - top , To me he made reply : " Yon cloud with that long purple cleft Brings fresh into my mind . A day ...
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Page 65 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the storm Grace that shall mould the maiden's form By silent sympathy. 'The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 302 - In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.
Page 68 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove : And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Page 184 - But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Page 300 - MILTON, thou shouldst be living at this hour ! England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness.
Page 292 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration ; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity ; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea : Listen ! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder everlastingly.
Page 55 - When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me — even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round!
Page 53 - Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things — With life and nature — purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain...
Page 56 - Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they might answer him.
Page 262 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one...