The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 5Little, Brown, 1854 |
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... songs With which , more zealous than the liveliest bird That in wild Arden's brakes was ever heard , Her work and her work's partners she can cheer , The whole day long , and all days of the year . Thus gladdened , from our own dear ...
... songs With which , more zealous than the liveliest bird That in wild Arden's brakes was ever heard , Her work and her work's partners she can cheer , The whole day long , and all days of the year . Thus gladdened , from our own dear ...
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... song , Where Man and Muse complained of mutual wrong ; While Cam's ideal current glided by , And antique towers nodded their foreheads high , Citadels dear to studious privacy . But Fortune , who had long been used to sport With this ...
... song , Where Man and Muse complained of mutual wrong ; While Cam's ideal current glided by , And antique towers nodded their foreheads high , Citadels dear to studious privacy . But Fortune , who had long been used to sport With this ...
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... song , A charm , that thought cannot destroy , Doth to thy strain belong . Methinks that in my dying hour Thy song would still be dear , And with a more than earthly power My passing Spirit cheer . Then , little Bird , this boon confer ...
... song , A charm , that thought cannot destroy , Doth to thy strain belong . Methinks that in my dying hour Thy song would still be dear , And with a more than earthly power My passing Spirit cheer . Then , little Bird , this boon confer ...
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... song Who means to charity no wrong ; Whose offering gladly would accord With this day's work , in thought and word . Heaven prosper X. it ! may peace , and love , And hope , and consolation , fall , Through its meek influence , from ...
... song Who means to charity no wrong ; Whose offering gladly would accord With this day's work , in thought and word . Heaven prosper X. it ! may peace , and love , And hope , and consolation , fall , Through its meek influence , from ...
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... song To his own genial instincts ; and was heard ( Though not without some plaintive tones between ) To utter , above showers of blossom swept From tossing boughs , the promise of a calm , Which the unsheltered traveller might receive ...
... song To his own genial instincts ; and was heard ( Though not without some plaintive tones between ) To utter , above showers of blossom swept From tossing boughs , the promise of a calm , Which the unsheltered traveller might receive ...
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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.