The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 7Macmillan, 1896 |
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... wind ‡ Must come and ask permission when to blow , What further empire would it have ? for now A ghostly Domination , unconfined * The reference is to the legend of Pope Alexander III . and Frederick Barbarossa . See the Fenwick note ...
... wind ‡ Must come and ask permission when to blow , What further empire would it have ? for now A ghostly Domination , unconfined * The reference is to the legend of Pope Alexander III . and Frederick Barbarossa . See the Fenwick note ...
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... wind , Though seldom heard by busy human kind ) — " As thou these ashes , little Brook ! wilt bear " Into the Avon , Avon to the tide " Of Severn , Severn to the narrow seas , " Into main Ocean they , this deed accurst " An emblem ...
... wind , Though seldom heard by busy human kind ) — " As thou these ashes , little Brook ! wilt bear " Into the Avon , Avon to the tide " Of Severn , Severn to the narrow seas , " Into main Ocean they , this deed accurst " An emblem ...
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... winds have made Unlooked - for outlet to an open sea , Their liquid world , for bold discovery , In all her quarters temptingly displayed ! 5 Hope guides the young ; but when the old must pass The threshold , whither shall they turn to ...
... winds have made Unlooked - for outlet to an open sea , Their liquid world , for bold discovery , In all her quarters temptingly displayed ! 5 Hope guides the young ; but when the old must pass The threshold , whither shall they turn to ...
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... wind , Demons and Spirits , many a dolorous groan Issues for that dominion overthrown : Proud Tiber grieves , and far - off Ganges , blind As his own worshippers : and Nile , reclined Upon his monstrous urn , the farewell moan Renews ...
... wind , Demons and Spirits , many a dolorous groan Issues for that dominion overthrown : Proud Tiber grieves , and far - off Ganges , blind As his own worshippers : and Nile , reclined Upon his monstrous urn , the farewell moan Renews ...
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... wind Charged with rich words poured out in thought's defence ; Whether the Church inspire that eloquence , + Or a Platonic Piety confined To the sole temple of the inward mind ; § And One there is who builds immortal lays , Though ...
... wind Charged with rich words poured out in thought's defence ; Whether the Church inspire that eloquence , + Or a Platonic Piety confined To the sole temple of the inward mind ; § And One there is who builds immortal lays , Though ...
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Ambleside ancient aught Bard beauty bird blest Bothwell Castle bowers breath bright brow Castle cheek Church clouds Coleorton Compare Composed 1827.-Published crown dear Devil's Bridge divine Dorothy Wordsworth doth earth edition Elegiac fair faith Fancy fear feel Fenwick note flowers Forum Trajanum gentle grace Grasmere hand happy hath heard heart Heaven hill holy hope Isle King Lady Beaumont light living LOCH ETIVE lonely look meek memory mind Miscellaneous Sonnets."-ED morn mountain Muse Nature Nature's night o'er peace Penrith Philoctetes Pillar Poems of Sentiment prayer river Mynach rock Roman round Rydal Mount scorn shade sigh smile smooth soft sonnet soul spirit stanza stars stone stream sweet tear thee thou thought Tour towers Trajan Trajan's Column tread trees truth vale verse voice wild winds wings Wishing-gate words Wordsworth to Lady Written at Rydal Yarrow ΙΟ
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Page 267 - Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul, Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again, The grand Perhaps ! We look on helplessly.
Page 144 - To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler! — that love-prompted strain — 'Twixt thee and thine a never-failing bond — Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain: Yet might'st thou seem, proud privilege! to sing All independent of the leafy spring.
Page 106 - Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white-robed Scholars only — this immense And glorious Work of fine intelligence! Give all thou canst ; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That...
Page 100 - Truth fails not ; but her outward forms that bear The longest date do melt like frosty rime, That in the morning whitened hill and plain And is no more ; drop like the tower sublime Of yesterday, which royally did wear His crown of weeds, but could not even sustain Some casual shout that broke the silent air, Or the unimaginable touch of Time.
Page 66 - ... gave him good counsel and his benediction, but forgot to give him money, which when the bishop had considered, he sent a servant in all haste to call Richard back to him; and at Richard's return the bishop said to him, ' Richard, I sent for you back to lend you a horse, which hath carried me many a mile, and, I thank God, with much ease...
Page 401 - ... Traveller lies Which he forbears again to look upon ; Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene The work of Fancy, or some happy tone Of meditation, slipping in between The beauty coming and the beauty gone. — If Thought and Love desert us, from that day Let us break off all commerce with the Muse : With Thought and Love companions of our way — Whate'er the senses take or may refuse, — The Mind's internal heaven shall shed her dews Of inspiration on the humblest lay.
Page 164 - Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow...
Page 285 - A TROUBLE, not of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor of the setting sun's pathetic light Engendered, hangs o'er Eildon's triple height : Spirits of power, assembled there, complain For kindred power departing from their sight ; While Tweed, best pleased in chanting a blithe strain, Saddens his voice again, and yet again. Lift up your hearts, ye mourners ! for the might Of the whole world's good wishes with him goes ; Blessings and prayers in nobler retinue Than sceptred king or laurelled conqueror knows,...
Page 55 - MOTHER ! whose virgin bosom was uncrost With the least shade of thought to sin allied ; Woman ! above all women glorified, Our tainted nature's solitary boast ; Purer than foam on central Ocean tost Brighter than eastern skies at daybreak strewn With fancied roses, than the unblemished moco Before her wane begins on heaven's blue coast : Thy Image falls to earth.
Page 345 - Was it for this That one, the fairest of all rivers, loved To blend his murmurs with my nurse's song, And, from his alder shades and rocky falls, And from his fords and shallows, sent a voice That flowed along my dreams?