The Poetical Works of William WordsworthPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 539 pages |
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... creature man ; but ye shall hear - I talk , and ye are standing in the sun , Without refreshment ! " Saying this , he led Towards the Cottage ; - homely was the spot ; And , to my feeling , ere we reached the door , Had almost a ...
... creature man ; but ye shall hear - I talk , and ye are standing in the sun , Without refreshment ! " Saying this , he led Towards the Cottage ; - homely was the spot ; And , to my feeling , ere we reached the door , Had almost a ...
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... creatures , from the soil Whereon their endless generations dwelt . But stop ! these theoretic fancies jar On serious minds ; then , as the Hindoos draw Their holy Ganges from a skyey fount , Even so deduce the Stream of human Life From ...
... creatures , from the soil Whereon their endless generations dwelt . But stop ! these theoretic fancies jar On serious minds ; then , as the Hindoos draw Their holy Ganges from a skyey fount , Even so deduce the Stream of human Life From ...
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... Creature weak In combination , ( wherefore else driven back So far , and of his old inheritance So easily deprived ? but , for that cause , More dignified , and stronger in himself ; Whether to act , judge , suffer , or enjoy 02 ...
... Creature weak In combination , ( wherefore else driven back So far , and of his old inheritance So easily deprived ? but , for that cause , More dignified , and stronger in himself ; Whether to act , judge , suffer , or enjoy 02 ...
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... Creature , squalid , vengeful , and impure ; Remorseless , and submissive to no law But superstitious fear , and abject sloth . -Enough is told ! Here am I- told ! Here am I - Ye have heard What evidence I seek , and vainly seek What ...
... Creature , squalid , vengeful , and impure ; Remorseless , and submissive to no law But superstitious fear , and abject sloth . -Enough is told ! Here am I- told ! Here am I - Ye have heard What evidence I seek , and vainly seek What ...
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... Creatures - Study of their habits and ways recommended Exhortation to bodily exertion and communion with Nature - Morbid Solitude pitiable --- Superstition better than apathy - Apathy and destitution unknown in the infancy of society ...
... Creatures - Study of their habits and ways recommended Exhortation to bodily exertion and communion with Nature - Morbid Solitude pitiable --- Superstition better than apathy - Apathy and destitution unknown in the infancy of society ...
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Page 486 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind. And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. VII Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years
Page 498 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Page 489 - 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. Then sing, ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song...
Page 15 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external World Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too, Theme this but little heard of among Men, The external World is fitted to the Mind ; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish : — this is our high argument.
Page 484 - 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 486 - From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
Page 14 - All strength, all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah, with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones, — I pass them unalarmed.
Page 433 - Nature led: more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For Nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all.
Page 488 - Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast : Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise : But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized ; High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Page 432 - Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul, While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.