The Poetical Works of William WordsworthA. and W. Galignani, 1828 - 340 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 12
... spread repu- tation , without at the same time producing irrefragable proofs of their unworthiness , let me be forgiven upon this occasion . - Having had the good fortune to be born and reared in a mountainous country , from my very ...
... spread repu- tation , without at the same time producing irrefragable proofs of their unworthiness , let me be forgiven upon this occasion . - Having had the good fortune to be born and reared in a mountainous country , from my very ...
Page 14
... spread its enjoyments ? Away , then , with the senseless iteration of the word , popular , applied to new works in Poetry , as if there were no test of excellence in this first of the fine arts but that all Men should run after his ...
... spread its enjoyments ? Away , then , with the senseless iteration of the word , popular , applied to new works in Poetry , as if there were no test of excellence in this first of the fine arts but that all Men should run after his ...
Page 24
... spreads its moving shroud ; The shepherd , all involved in wreaths of fire , Now shows a shadowy speck , and now is ... spreading of its golden tides ; And now it touches on the purple steep That flings his shadow on the pictured deep ...
... spreads its moving shroud ; The shepherd , all involved in wreaths of fire , Now shows a shadowy speck , and now is ... spreading of its golden tides ; And now it touches on the purple steep That flings his shadow on the pictured deep ...
Page 26
... spread along the flood . The song of mountain streams , unheard by day , Now hardly heard , beguiles my homeward way . All air is , as the sleeping water , still , List'ning the aëreal music of the hill , Broke only by the slow clock ...
... spread along the flood . The song of mountain streams , unheard by day , Now hardly heard , beguiles my homeward way . All air is , as the sleeping water , still , List'ning the aëreal music of the hill , Broke only by the slow clock ...
Page 30
... spread , The pastoral Swiss begins the cliffs to scale , To silence leaving the deserted vale ; Mounts , where the verdure leads , from stage to stage , And pastures on as in the Patriarchs ' age : O'er lofty heights serene and still ...
... spread , The pastoral Swiss begins the cliffs to scale , To silence leaving the deserted vale ; Mounts , where the verdure leads , from stage to stage , And pastures on as in the Patriarchs ' age : O'er lofty heights serene and still ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
beautiful behold beneath Betty Foy bowers breast breath bright calm cheer Child clouds cottage dark dear deep delight doth Dr Johnson dread dwell earth fair faith Fancy fear feel flowers Friend gentle grace Grasmere grave green grove hand happy hath hear heard heart Heaven Helvellyn hills holy hope hour human labour light living lonely look metre mind morning mortal mountain Nature Nature's never night o'er pain passion peace Peter Bell pleasure Poems Poet praise racter Rill RIVER DUDDON Robert Walker rocks round RYDAL MOUNT Rylstone shade side sight silent sleep smile soft solitary song Sonnet sorrow soul sound spirit spot St Cuthbert stars stood stream sublime sweet tears thee things thou thought Tower trees truth Ulpha vale voice Wanderer ween Westmorland wild WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind woods words youth
Popular passages
Page 249 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong: I hear the echoes through the mountains throng, The winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay...
Page 128 - Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again? Whate'er the theme, the maiden sang As if her song could have no ending; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending; — I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill The music in my heart I bore, Long...
Page 102 - When these wild ecstasies shall be matured Into a sober pleasure; when thy mind Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms, Thy memory be as a dwelling-place For all sweet sounds and harmonies; oh! then, If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief. Should be thy portion, with what healing thoughts Of tender joy wilt thou remember me, And these my exhortations'.
Page 81 - Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles.
Page 17 - You yet may spy the fawn at play, The hare upon the green; But the sweet face of Lucy Gray Will never more be seen. "To-night will be a stormy night — You to the town must go; And take a lantern, Child, to light Your mother through the snow.
Page 128 - Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; 0 listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No Nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
Page 92 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Page 119 - Mindless of its just honours ; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief ; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a...
Page 101 - 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 81 - 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.