The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 7G. Bell & Sons, 1893 |
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... wild flower , 215 All over his dear Country ; left the deeds Of Wallace , like a family of Ghosts , To people the steep rocks and river banks , Her natural sanctuaries , with a local soul Of independence and stern liberty . Sometimes it ...
... wild flower , 215 All over his dear Country ; left the deeds Of Wallace , like a family of Ghosts , To people the steep rocks and river banks , Her natural sanctuaries , with a local soul Of independence and stern liberty . Sometimes it ...
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... wild field where they were sown . This is , in truth , heroic argument , This genuine prowess , which I wished to touch With hand however weak , but in the main It lies far hidden from the reach of words . Points have we all of us ...
... wild field where they were sown . This is , in truth , heroic argument , This genuine prowess , which I wished to touch With hand however weak , but in the main It lies far hidden from the reach of words . Points have we all of us ...
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... wild flowers Decking the matron temples of a place 226 So famous through the world ? To me , at least , It was a goodly prospect : for , in sooth , Though I had learnt betimes to stand unpropped , And independent musings pleased me so ...
... wild flowers Decking the matron temples of a place 226 So famous through the world ? To me , at least , It was a goodly prospect : for , in sooth , Though I had learnt betimes to stand unpropped , And independent musings pleased me so ...
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... Than finds what he beholds . And sure it is , That this first transit from the smooth delights And wild outlandish walks of simple youth 515 To something that resembles an approach 519 Towards human business RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE . 57.
... Than finds what he beholds . And sure it is , That this first transit from the smooth delights And wild outlandish walks of simple youth 515 To something that resembles an approach 519 Towards human business RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE . 57.
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... wild , unworldly - minded youth , given up 290 To his own eager thoughts . It would demand Some skill , and longer time than may be spared , To paint these vanities , and how they wrought In haunts where they , till now , had been ...
... wild , unworldly - minded youth , given up 290 To his own eager thoughts . It would demand Some skill , and longer time than may be spared , To paint these vanities , and how they wrought In haunts where they , till now , had been ...
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Page 81 - Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake.
Page 17 - 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 19 - 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 80 - There was a Boy : ye knew him well, ye cliffs And islands of Winander !—many a time At evening, when the earliest stars began To move along the edges of the hills, Rising or setting, would he stand alone Beneath the trees or by the glimmering lake. And there, with fingers interwoven, both hands Pressed closely palm to palm, and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they might answer him...
Page 200 - Did both find, helpers to their hearts' desire, And stuff at hand, plastic as they could wish, — Were called upon to exercise their skill, Not in "Utopia, — subterranean fields, — Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where ! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, — the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all...
Page 14 - Were bronzed with deepest radiance, stood alone Beneath the sky, as if I had been born On Indian plains, and from my mother's hut Had run abroad in wantonness, to sport A naked savage, in the thunder shower. Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up Fostered alike by beauty and by fear...
Page 15 - With what strange utterance did the loud dry wind Blow through my ear ! the sky seemed not a sky Of earth — and with what motion moved the clouds...
Page 247 - By reason, blest by faith : what we have loved Others will love, and we will teach them how; Instruct them how the mind of man becomes A thousand times more beautiful than the earth On which he dwells...
Page 108 - Were all like workings of one mind, the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree ; Characters of the great Apocalypse, The types and symbols of Eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end.
Page 71 - Magnificent The morning rose, in memorable pomp, Glorious as e'er I had beheld — in front, The sea lay laughing at a distance; near, The solid mountains shone, bright as the clouds, Grain-tinctured, drenched in empyrean light; And in the meadows and the lower grounds Was all the sweetness of a common dawn — Dews, vapours, and the melody of birds, And labourers going forth to till the fields.