The Complete Poetical Works of William WordsworthCrowell, 1892 - 951 pages |
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... trees nod their trou- bled heads , Spires , rocks , and lawns a browner night o'erspreads ; Strong terror checks the female peasant's sighs , And start the astonished shades at female eyes . From Bruno's forests screams the affright- ed ...
... trees nod their trou- bled heads , Spires , rocks , and lawns a browner night o'erspreads ; Strong terror checks the female peasant's sighs , And start the astonished shades at female eyes . From Bruno's forests screams the affright- ed ...
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... trees . And louder torrents stun the noon - tide hill , The pastoral Swiss begin the cliffs to scale , Leaving to silence the deserted vale ; And like the Patriarchs in their simple age Move , as the verdure leads , from stage to stage ...
... trees . And louder torrents stun the noon - tide hill , The pastoral Swiss begin the cliffs to scale , Leaving to silence the deserted vale ; And like the Patriarchs in their simple age Move , as the verdure leads , from stage to stage ...
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... trees , the steeple tower That on his marriage day sweet music made ! Till then , he hoped his bones might there be laid Close by my mother in their native bow- ers : Bidding me trust in God , he stood and prayed ; I could not pray ...
... trees , the steeple tower That on his marriage day sweet music made ! Till then , he hoped his bones might there be laid Close by my mother in their native bow- ers : Bidding me trust in God , he stood and prayed ; I could not pray ...
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... trees a fagot blazed , The travellers saw me weep , my fate in- quired , And gave me food - and rest , more wel- come , more desired . 66 XLVI . Rough potters seemed they , trading soberly With panniered asses driven from door to door ...
... trees a fagot blazed , The travellers saw me weep , my fate in- quired , And gave me food - and rest , more wel- come , more desired . 66 XLVI . Rough potters seemed they , trading soberly With panniered asses driven from door to door ...
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... tree , which 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 ...
... tree , which 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 ...
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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...