The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 5Little, Brown, 1854 |
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... heart did he Pause , courteous Spirit ! - Balbi supplicates By a blest Husband guided , Mary came Six months to six years added he remained . Cenotaph . 136 • 136 • · 137 138 139 . 140 • 141 142 143 · 144 • 145 145 147 Epitaph in the ...
... heart did he Pause , courteous Spirit ! - Balbi supplicates By a blest Husband guided , Mary came Six months to six years added he remained . Cenotaph . 136 • 136 • · 137 138 139 . 140 • 141 142 143 · 144 • 145 145 147 Epitaph in the ...
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... hearts . But time , irrevocable time , is flown , And let us utter thanks for blessings sown And reaped , -what hath been , and what is , our own . Not far we travelled ere a shout of glee , Startling us all , dispersed my reverie ...
... hearts . But time , irrevocable time , is flown , And let us utter thanks for blessings sown And reaped , -what hath been , and what is , our own . Not far we travelled ere a shout of glee , Startling us all , dispersed my reverie ...
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... hearts awake , To rural incidents , whose genial powers Filled with delight three summer morning hours . More could my pen report of grave or gay That through our gypsy travel cheered the way ; But , bursting forth above the waves , the ...
... hearts awake , To rural incidents , whose genial powers Filled with delight three summer morning hours . More could my pen report of grave or gay That through our gypsy travel cheered the way ; But , bursting forth above the waves , the ...
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... heart and genius , overcome By noise and strife , and questions wearisome , And the vain splendors of Imperial Rome ? - Let easy mirth his social hours inspire , And fiction animate his sportive lyre , Attuned to verse that , crowning ...
... heart and genius , overcome By noise and strife , and questions wearisome , And the vain splendors of Imperial Rome ? - Let easy mirth his social hours inspire , And fiction animate his sportive lyre , Attuned to verse that , crowning ...
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... utmost solitude of age to face , Still shall be left some corner of the heart Where Love for living Thing can find a place . 1846 . IX . FLOATING ISLAND . These lines are by the 26 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS . Sonnet (To an Octogenatian) Sonnet.
... utmost solitude of age to face , Still shall be left some corner of the heart Where Love for living Thing can find a place . 1846 . IX . FLOATING ISLAND . These lines are by the 26 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS . Sonnet (To an Octogenatian) Sonnet.
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Page 178 - 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 passed away a glory from the earth.
Page 182 - O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive...
Page 180 - 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 286 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noonday grove; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love. The...
Page 194 - Accordingly, such a language, arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings, is a more permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets...
Page 183 - Nor man nor boy Nor all that is at enmity with joy Can utterly abolish or destroy. 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.
Page 307 - Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me...
Page 289 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs ; they on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seem'd Far off the flying fiend.
Page 177 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 202 - ... but natural and human tears ; she can boast of no celestial ichor that distinguishes her vital juices from those of prose ; the same human blood circulates through the veins of them both.