The Poetical Works of William WordsworthPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 539 pages |
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... of being enabled to construct a literary Work that might live , it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own Mind , and exam- ine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for THE EXCURSION. ...
... of being enabled to construct a literary Work that might live , it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own Mind , and exam- ine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for THE EXCURSION. ...
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... Nature , and Society ; and to be entitled , The Recluse ; as having for its principal subject the sen- sations and opinions of a Poet living in retirement . The preparatory Poem is biographical , and conducts the history of the Author's ...
... Nature , and Society ; and to be entitled , The Recluse ; as having for its principal subject the sen- sations and opinions of a Poet living in retirement . The preparatory Poem is biographical , and conducts the history of the Author's ...
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... Nature , and on Human Life , Musing in Solitude , I oft perceive Fair trains of imagery before me rise , Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure , or with no unpleasing sadness mixed ; And I am conscious of affecting thoughts And dear ...
... Nature , and on Human Life , Musing in Solitude , I oft perceive Fair trains of imagery before me rise , Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure , or with no unpleasing sadness mixed ; And I am conscious of affecting thoughts And dear ...
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... Nature leads , The high and tender Muses shall accept With gracious smile , deliberately pleased , 9 And listening Time reward with sacred praise . Among the hills of Athol he was born ; Where , on a small hereditary Farm , An ...
... Nature leads , The high and tender Muses shall accept With gracious smile , deliberately pleased , 9 And listening Time reward with sacred praise . Among the hills of Athol he was born ; Where , on a small hereditary Farm , An ...
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... Nature , and already was prepared , By his intense conceptions , to receive Deeply the lesson deep of love which he Whom Nature , by whatever means , has taught To feel intensely , cannot but receive . Such was the Boy - but for the ...
... Nature , and already was prepared , By his intense conceptions , to receive Deeply the lesson deep of love which he Whom Nature , by whatever means , has taught To feel intensely , cannot but receive . Such was the Boy - but for the ...
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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.