The poetical works of William Wordsworth. New and complete annotated ed. Centenary ed, Issue 619, Volume 5 |
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Page 127
... turned , And through the silent water stole my way Back to the covert of the willow tree ; There in her mooring - place I left my bark , - And through the meadows homeward went , in grave And serious mood ; but after I had seen That ...
... turned , And through the silent water stole my way Back to the covert of the willow tree ; There in her mooring - place I left my bark , - And through the meadows homeward went , in grave And serious mood ; but after I had seen That ...
Page 154
... turning the mind in upon herself , Pored , watched , expected , listened , spread my thoughts And spread them with a wider creeping ; felt Incumbencies more awful , visitings Of the Upholder of the tranquil soul , That tolerates the ...
... turning the mind in upon herself , Pored , watched , expected , listened , spread my thoughts And spread them with a wider creeping ; felt Incumbencies more awful , visitings Of the Upholder of the tranquil soul , That tolerates the ...
Page 166
... youth's generous heart And mounting spirit , pitiably repaid , When so disturbed , whatever palms are won . From these I turned to travel with the shoal Of more unthinking natures , easy minds And pillowy ; 166 THE PRELUDE .
... youth's generous heart And mounting spirit , pitiably repaid , When so disturbed , whatever palms are won . From these I turned to travel with the shoal Of more unthinking natures , easy minds And pillowy ; 166 THE PRELUDE .
Page 177
... turned my head to look if he were there ; Then into solemn thought I passed once more . A freshness also found I at this time In human Life , the daily life of those Whose occupations really I loved ; The peaceful scene oft filled me ...
... turned my head to look if he were there ; Then into solemn thought I passed once more . A freshness also found I at this time In human Life , the daily life of those Whose occupations really I loved ; The peaceful scene oft filled me ...
Page 183
... turning of the road , So near that , slipping back into the shade Of a thick hawthorn , I could mark him well , Myself unseen . He was of stature tall , A span above man's common measure , tall , Stiff , lank , and upright ; a more ...
... turning of the road , So near that , slipping back into the shade Of a thick hawthorn , I could mark him well , Myself unseen . He was of stature tall , A span above man's common measure , tall , Stiff , lank , and upright ; a more ...
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Page 78 - Ah ! then if mine had been the painter's hand To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream...
Page 130 - Wisdom and Spirit of the universe ! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul ; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things — With life and nature — purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both...
Page 111 - 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 realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Page 108 - Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee; My heart is at your festival, My head hath its coronal, The fulness of your bliss, I feel- I feel it all.
Page 227 - Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky, The rocks that muttered close upon our ears, Black drizzling crags that spake by the way-side As if a voice were in them, the sick sight And giddy prospect of the raving stream...
Page 107 - 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 106 - 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 356 - All meek and silent, save that through a rift — Not distant from the shore whereon we stood, A fixed, abysmal, gloomy breathing-place — Mounted the roar of waters, torrents, streams Innumerable, roaring with one voice ! Heard over earth and sea, and, in that hour, For so it seemed, felt by the starry heavens.
Page 131 - When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me— even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round...
Page 129 - But huge and mighty forms, that do not live Like living men, moved slowly through the mind By day, and were a trouble to my dreams.