The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 4Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827 |
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... mind were equal to fulfil The comprehensive mandate which they give — Vain aspiration of an earnest will ! Yet in this moral Strain a power may live , Beloved Wife ! such solace to impart As it hath yielded to thy tender heart . RYDAL ...
... mind were equal to fulfil The comprehensive mandate which they give — Vain aspiration of an earnest will ! Yet in this moral Strain a power may live , Beloved Wife ! such solace to impart As it hath yielded to thy tender heart . RYDAL ...
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... mind Is such perplexity confined : For , spite of sober truth , that sees A world of fixed remembrances Which to this mystery belong , If , undeceived , my skill can trace The characters of every face , There lack not strange delusion ...
... mind Is such perplexity confined : For , spite of sober truth , that sees A world of fixed remembrances Which to this mystery belong , If , undeceived , my skill can trace The characters of every face , There lack not strange delusion ...
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... minds have fed , And we have in one meaning read If , when at home our private weal Hath suffered from the shock of zeal , Together we have learned to prize Forbearance and self - sacrifice - If we like combatants have fared , And for ...
... minds have fed , And we have in one meaning read If , when at home our private weal Hath suffered from the shock of zeal , Together we have learned to prize Forbearance and self - sacrifice - If we like combatants have fared , And for ...
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... Minds of Men will own No loyal rest while England's Crown Remains without an Heir , the bait Of strife and factions desperate ; Who , paying deadly hate in kind Through all things else , in this can find A mutual hope , a common mind ...
... Minds of Men will own No loyal rest while England's Crown Remains without an Heir , the bait Of strife and factions desperate ; Who , paying deadly hate in kind Through all things else , in this can find A mutual hope , a common mind ...
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... mind must go To reach the well - spring of this woe ! While thus he brooded , music sweet Was played to cheer them in retreat ; But Norton lingered in the rear : Thought followed thought- and ere the last Of that unhappy train was past ...
... mind must go To reach the well - spring of this woe ! While thus he brooded , music sweet Was played to cheer them in retreat ; But Norton lingered in the rear : Thought followed thought- and ere the last Of that unhappy train was past ...
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Page 350 - Upon the growing Boy, But He beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The Youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
Page 213 - I HEARD a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran ; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.
Page 360 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language ; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater simplicity, and, consequently, may be more accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated...
Page 352 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized...
Page 294 - The task, in smoother walks to stray; But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control; But in the quietness of thought: Me this unchartered freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance-desires: My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.
Page 350 - See, at his feet, some little plan or chart, Some fragment from his dream of human life, Shaped by himself with newly-learned art ; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral...
Page 347 - As to the tabor's sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief: A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong...
Page 333 - So once it would have been, — 'tis so no more ; I have submitted to a new control : A power is gone, which nothing can restore ; A deep distress hath humanised my Soul.
Page 367 - And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet Morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear And weep the more because I weep in vain.
Page 367 - ... that not only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose when prose is well written. The truth of this assertion might be demonstrated by innumerable passages from almost all the poetical writings, even of Milton himself.