The Complete Poetical Works of William WordsworthCrowell, 1892 - 951 pages |
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... stand in the history of human genius , may measure the great transition that Wordsworth's eighty years witnessed in ... standing on the top of golden hours . The September massacres filled the sky with a lurid flame . Wordsworth still ...
... stand in the history of human genius , may measure the great transition that Wordsworth's eighty years witnessed in ... standing on the top of golden hours . The September massacres filled the sky with a lurid flame . Wordsworth still ...
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... stand , and will finally stand , above them all . " Mr. Myers , also a poet , and the author of a volume on Wordsworth as much dis- tinguished by insight as by admirable literary grace and power , talks of " a Plato , a Dante , a ...
... stand , and will finally stand , above them all . " Mr. Myers , also a poet , and the author of a volume on Wordsworth as much dis- tinguished by insight as by admirable literary grace and power , talks of " a Plato , a Dante , a ...
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... stand alone Upon the summit of this naked cone , And watch the fearless chamois - hunter chase His prey , through tracts abrupt of deso- late space , 1 Through vacant worlds where Nature never gave A brook to murmur or a bough to wave ...
... stand alone Upon the summit of this naked cone , And watch the fearless chamois - hunter chase His prey , through tracts abrupt of deso- late space , 1 Through vacant worlds where Nature never gave A brook to murmur or a bough to wave ...
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... Stand motionless , to awful silence bound : Fines , on the coast , through mist their tops uprear , That like to leaning masts of stranded ships appear . A single chasm , a gulf of gloomy blue , Gapes in the centre of the sea — and ...
... Stand motionless , to awful silence bound : Fines , on the coast , through mist their tops uprear , That like to leaning masts of stranded ships appear . A single chasm , a gulf of gloomy blue , Gapes in the centre of the sea — and ...
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... stands near the lake of Esthwaite , on a desolate part of the shore , commanding a beautiful prospect . Composed in part at school at Hawkshead . The tree has disappeared , and the slip of Common on which it stood , that ran parallel to ...
... stands near the lake of Esthwaite , on a desolate part of the shore , commanding a beautiful prospect . Composed in part at school at Hawkshead . The tree has disappeared , and the slip of Common on which it stood , that ran parallel to ...
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Page 116 - 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.
Page 405 - 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 405 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing ; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence : truths that wake, To perish never ; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy...
Page 405 - The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
Page 200 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 116 - But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind. With tranquil restoration: feelings too...
Page 139 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ! This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. 'Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse ; and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page 245 - 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 245 - Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free ; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity ! There...
Page 390 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...