Poems, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1815 |
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... gives thy gestures grace and life ! So have I , not unmoved in mind , Seen birds of tempest - loving kind , Thus beating up against the wind . What hand but would a garland cull For thee who art so beautiful ? O happy pleasure ! here to ...
... gives thy gestures grace and life ! So have I , not unmoved in mind , Seen birds of tempest - loving kind , Thus beating up against the wind . What hand but would a garland cull For thee who art so beautiful ? O happy pleasure ! here to ...
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... give new pleasure like the past , Continued long as life shall last . Nor am I loth , though pleased at heart , Sweet Highland Girl ! from Thee to part ; For I , methinks , till I grow old , As fair before me shall behold , As I do now ...
... give new pleasure like the past , Continued long as life shall last . Nor am I loth , though pleased at heart , Sweet Highland Girl ! from Thee to part ; For I , methinks , till I grow old , As fair before me shall behold , As I do now ...
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... gives a thing but small delight that never can be dear ? The silver Moon with all her Vales , and Hills of migh- tiest fame , Do they betray us when they're seen ? and are they but a name ? Or is it rather that Conceit rapacious is and ...
... gives a thing but small delight that never can be dear ? The silver Moon with all her Vales , and Hills of migh- tiest fame , Do they betray us when they're seen ? and are they but a name ? Or is it rather that Conceit rapacious is and ...
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... gives us promise of a glorious day . " A gentle answer did the Old Man make , In courteous speech which forth he slowly drew : And him with further words I thus bespake , " What kind of work is that which you pursue ? This is a lonesome ...
... gives us promise of a glorious day . " A gentle answer did the Old Man make , In courteous speech which forth he slowly drew : And him with further words I thus bespake , " What kind of work is that which you pursue ? This is a lonesome ...
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... give to God and Man their dues . He told me that he to this pond had come To gather Leeches , being old and poor : Employment hazardous and wearisome ! And he had many hardships to endure : From Pond to Pond he roamed , from moor to ...
... give to God and Man their dues . He told me that he to this pond had come To gather Leeches , being old and poor : Employment hazardous and wearisome ! And he had many hardships to endure : From Pond to Pond he roamed , from moor to ...
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Page 212 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour ; .England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 355 - To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks, which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lightly as they...
Page 191 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 338 - Ah ! then if mine had been the painter's hand To express what then I saw, and add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream...
Page 381 - In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed; the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.
Page 105 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: — We murder to dissect.
Page 80 - Unwearied in that service : rather say With warmer love — oh ! with far deeper zeal Of holier love. Nor wilt thou then forget, That after many wanderings, many years Of absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs, And this green pastoral landscape, were to me More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake ! LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING.
Page 30 - 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 354 - 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 352 - Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage; thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest Which we are toiling all our lives to find...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Poems, Volume 2 Poems, Dorothy Wordsworth |
| Author | William Wordsworth |
| Publisher | Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1815 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 17 Jul 2007 |
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