The Poetical Works of William WordsworthPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 539 pages |
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... evermore Within the walls of Cities ; may these sounds Have their authentic comment that even these Hearing , I be not downcast or forlorn ! Descend , prophetic Spirit ! that inspirest The human Soul of universal earth , Dreaming on ...
... evermore Within the walls of Cities ; may these sounds Have their authentic comment that even these Hearing , I be not downcast or forlorn ! Descend , prophetic Spirit ! that inspirest The human Soul of universal earth , Dreaming on ...
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... evermore Her eyelids drooped , her eyes were downward cast , And , when she at her table gave me food , She did not look at me . Her voice was low , Her body was subdued . In every act Pertaining to her house affairs , appeared The ...
... evermore Her eyelids drooped , her eyes were downward cast , And , when she at her table gave me food , She did not look at me . Her voice was low , Her body was subdued . In every act Pertaining to her house affairs , appeared The ...
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... evermore her eye Was busy in the distance , shaping things That made her heart beat quick . You see that path Now faint the grass has crept o'er its gray line ; There , to and fro , she paced through many a day Of the warm summer , from ...
... evermore her eye Was busy in the distance , shaping things That made her heart beat quick . You see that path Now faint the grass has crept o'er its gray line ; There , to and fro , she paced through many a day Of the warm summer , from ...
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... evermore Such the reward he sought ; and wore out life There , where on few external things his heart Was set , and those his own ; or , if not his , Subsisting under Nature's steadfast law . " What other yearning was the master tie Of ...
... evermore Such the reward he sought ; and wore out life There , where on few external things his heart Was set , and those his own ; or , if not his , Subsisting under Nature's steadfast law . " What other yearning was the master tie Of ...
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... evermore Returning , and injunctions from within Doubt to cast off and weariness ; in trust That what the soul perceives , if glory lost , May be , through pains and persevering hope , Recovered ; or , if hitherto unknown , Lies within ...
... evermore Returning , and injunctions from within Doubt to cast off and weariness ; in trust That what the soul perceives , if glory lost , May be , through pains and persevering hope , Recovered ; or , if hitherto unknown , Lies within ...
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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.