The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 5E. Moxon, 1840 |
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... Mornings The Fountain To the Spade of a Friend Tribute to the memory of the same Dog Fidelity VOL . V. b 30 33 37 Incident characteristic of a favourite Dog 39 41 43 PAGE Ode to Duty 46 Character of the Happy Warrior.
... Mornings The Fountain To the Spade of a Friend Tribute to the memory of the same Dog Fidelity VOL . V. b 30 33 37 Incident characteristic of a favourite Dog 39 41 43 PAGE Ode to Duty 46 Character of the Happy Warrior.
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... Morning To May - Lines suggested by a Portrait - 94 97 103 105 106 111 112 · 115 121 122 124 127 131 The foregoing subject resumed - 137 Upon seeing a coloured drawing of the Bird of Paradise in an Album 139 Yarrow revisited YARROW ...
... Morning To May - Lines suggested by a Portrait - 94 97 103 105 106 111 112 · 115 121 122 124 127 131 The foregoing subject resumed - 137 Upon seeing a coloured drawing of the Bird of Paradise in an Album 139 Yarrow revisited YARROW ...
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... their kind . You look round on your mother Earth , As if she for no purpose bore you ; As if you were her first - born birth , And none had lived before you ! " One morning thus , by Esthwaite lake , When life B 2 EXPOSTULATION and Reply.
... their kind . You look round on your mother Earth , As if she for no purpose bore you ; As if you were her first - born birth , And none had lived before you ! " One morning thus , by Esthwaite lake , When life B 2 EXPOSTULATION and Reply.
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William Wordsworth. One morning thus , by Esthwaite lake , When life was sweet , I knew not why , To me my good friend Matthew spake , And thus I made reply : " The eye - it cannot choose but see ; We cannot bid the ear be still ; Our ...
William Wordsworth. One morning thus , by Esthwaite lake , When life was sweet , I knew not why , To me my good friend Matthew spake , And thus I made reply : " The eye - it cannot choose but see ; We cannot bid the ear be still ; Our ...
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... morning meal is done , Make haste , your morning task resign ; Come forth and feel the sun . Edward will come with you ; -and , pray , Put on with speed your woodland dress ; And bring no book : for this one day We'll give to idleness ...
... morning meal is done , Make haste , your morning task resign ; Come forth and feel the sun . Edward will come with you ; -and , pray , Put on with speed your woodland dress ; And bring no book : for this one day We'll give to idleness ...
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Page 48 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 1805.
Page 51 - Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...
Page 338 - 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 past away a glory from the earth.
Page 21 - The tears into his eyes were brought. And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. — I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.
Page 339 - On every side, In a thousand valleys far and wide, Fresh flowers; while the sun shines warm, And the Babe leaps up on his Mother's arm...
Page 46 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot; Who do thy work, and know it not : Oh ! if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power I around them cast.
Page 6 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
Page 50 - Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means; and there will stand On honourable terms, or else retire, And in himself possess his own desire; Who comprehends his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim...
Page 350 - Did I request thee Maker, from my clay To mould me man, did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me...
Page 45 - O'er rocks and stones, following the dog As quickly as he may ; Nor far had gone before he found A human skeleton on the ground ; The appalled discoverer, with a sigh, Looks round to learn the history. From those abrupt and perilous rocks The man had fallen — that place of fear ! At length upon the shepherd's mind It breaks, and all is clear ; He instantly recalled the name, And who he was and whence he came; Remembered, too, the very day On which the traveller passed this way.