The poetical works of William Wordsworth. New and complete annotated ed. Centenary ed, Issue 618, Volume 4 |
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... Memory of the same Dog · 226 Fidelity Ode to Duty • · · 228 231 Character of the Happy Warrior 233 The Force of Prayer ; or , the Founding of Bolton Priory . A Tradition 237 A Fact , and an Imagination ; or , Canute and Alfred , on the ...
... Memory of the same Dog · 226 Fidelity Ode to Duty • · · 228 231 Character of the Happy Warrior 233 The Force of Prayer ; or , the Founding of Bolton Priory . A Tradition 237 A Fact , and an Imagination ; or , Canute and Alfred , on the ...
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... memory . VI . CLERICAL INTEGRITY . NOR shall the eternal roll of praise reject Those Unconforming ; whom one rigorous day Drives from their Cures , a voluntary prey To poverty , and grief , and disrespect , And some to want as if by ...
... memory . VI . CLERICAL INTEGRITY . NOR shall the eternal roll of praise reject Those Unconforming ; whom one rigorous day Drives from their Cures , a voluntary prey To poverty , and grief , and disrespect , And some to want as if by ...
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... leave Less scanty measure of those graceful rites And usages , whose due return invites A stir of mind too natural to deceive ; * See Note Giving to Memory help when she would weave A crown 80 POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION .
... leave Less scanty measure of those graceful rites And usages , whose due return invites A stir of mind too natural to deceive ; * See Note Giving to Memory help when she would weave A crown 80 POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION .
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William [poetical works] Wordsworth. Giving to Memory help when she would weave A crown for Hope ! —I dread the boasted lights That all too often are but fiery blights , Killing the bud o'er which in vain we grieve . Go , seek , when ...
William [poetical works] Wordsworth. Giving to Memory help when she would weave A crown for Hope ! —I dread the boasted lights That all too often are but fiery blights , Killing the bud o'er which in vain we grieve . Go , seek , when ...
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... memory , Shall long survive , to shelter the Abode Of genuine Faith . Where , haply , ' mid this band Of daisies , shepherds sate of yore and wove May - garlands , there let the holy altar stand For kneeling adoration ; -while - above ...
... memory , Shall long survive , to shelter the Abode Of genuine Faith . Where , haply , ' mid this band Of daisies , shepherds sate of yore and wove May - garlands , there let the holy altar stand For kneeling adoration ; -while - above ...
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Page 198 - 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 209 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Page 234 - CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR. WHO is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be ? — It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought...
Page 232 - Yet seek thy firm support, according to their need. I, loving freedom, and untried ; No sport of every random gust, Yet being to myself a guide, Too blindly have reposed my trust : And oft, when in my heart was heard Thy timely mandate, I deferred The task, in smoother walks to stray ; But thee I now would serve more strictly if I may.
Page 232 - Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth; Glad hearts, without reproach or blot, Who do thy work and know it not: Oh!
Page 96 - And what, for this frail world, were all That mortals do or suffer, Did no responsive harp, no pen, Memorial tribute offer ? Yea, what were mighty Nature's self ; Her features, could they win us, Unhelped by the poetic voice That hourly speaks within us...
Page 284 - So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive, Would that the little Flowers were born to live, Conscious of half the pleasure which they give ; That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone...
Page 196 - UP ! up ! my Friend, and quit your books ; Or surely you'll grow double : "Up ! up ! my Friend, and clear your looks ; Why all this toil and trouble...
Page 62 - THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.
Page 229 - There sometimes doth a leaping fish Send through the tarn a lonely cheer; The crags repeat the raven's croak, In symphony austere...