Poems, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1815 |
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... the The leafy grove that covers : And Pity sanctifies the verse grove , That paints , by strength of sorrow , The unconquerable strength of love ; Bear witness , rueful Yarrow ! But thou , that didst appear so fair To fond 21.
... the The leafy grove that covers : And Pity sanctifies the verse grove , That paints , by strength of sorrow , The unconquerable strength of love ; Bear witness , rueful Yarrow ! But thou , that didst appear so fair To fond 21.
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William Wordsworth. But thou , that didst appear so fair To fond imagination , Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation : Meek loveliness is round thee spread , A softness still and holy ; The grace of forest charms decayed ...
William Wordsworth. But thou , that didst appear so fair To fond imagination , Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation : Meek loveliness is round thee spread , A softness still and holy ; The grace of forest charms decayed ...
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... appearing Star , Like a glory from afar , First shall head the Flock of War ! " Alas ! the fervent Harper did not know That for a tranquil Soul the Lay was framed , Who , long compelled in humble walks to go , Was softened into feeling ...
... appearing Star , Like a glory from afar , First shall head the Flock of War ! " Alas ! the fervent Harper did not know That for a tranquil Soul the Lay was framed , Who , long compelled in humble walks to go , Was softened into feeling ...
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... appears ; Led , Heaven knows how ! to this poor sod : And He has neither eyes nor ears ; Himself his world , and his own God ; One to whose smooth - rubbed soul can cling Nor form , nor feeling , great nor small ; A reasoning , self ...
... appears ; Led , Heaven knows how ! to this poor sod : And He has neither eyes nor ears ; Himself his world , and his own God ; One to whose smooth - rubbed soul can cling Nor form , nor feeling , great nor small ; A reasoning , self ...
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... appear'st untouched by solemn thought , Thy nature is not therefore less divine : Thou liest " in Abraham's bosom " all the year ; And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine , God being with thee when we know it not . XXXIV . COMPOSED ...
... appear'st untouched by solemn thought , Thy nature is not therefore less divine : Thou liest " in Abraham's bosom " all the year ; And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine , God being with thee when we know it not . XXXIV . COMPOSED ...
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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...