The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 5Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827 |
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... calm of nature with our restless thoughts ? " He spake with somewhat of a solemn tone : But , when he ended , there was in his face Such easy cheerfulness , a look so mild , That for a little time it stole away All recollection , and ...
... calm of nature with our restless thoughts ? " He spake with somewhat of a solemn tone : But , when he ended , there was in his face Such easy cheerfulness , a look so mild , That for a little time it stole away All recollection , and ...
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... calm oblivious tendencies Of nature , mid her plants , and weeds , and flowers , And silent overgrowings , still survived . The Old Man , noting this , resumed , and said , 66 My Friend ! enough to sorrow you have given , The purposes ...
... calm oblivious tendencies Of nature , mid her plants , and weeds , and flowers , And silent overgrowings , still survived . The Old Man , noting this , resumed , and said , 66 My Friend ! enough to sorrow you have given , The purposes ...
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... calm pleasures of the pasturing Herd To happy contemplation soothed his walk ; How the poor Brute's condition , forced to run Its course of suffering in the public road , Sad contrast ! all too often smote his heart With unavailing pity ...
... calm pleasures of the pasturing Herd To happy contemplation soothed his walk ; How the poor Brute's condition , forced to run Its course of suffering in the public road , Sad contrast ! all too often smote his heart With unavailing pity ...
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... to sick hearts And idle spirits : — there the sun himself , At the calm close of summer's longest day , Rests his substantial Orb ; - between those heights And on the top of either pinnacle , More keenly 76 THE SOLITARY .
... to sick hearts And idle spirits : — there the sun himself , At the calm close of summer's longest day , Rests his substantial Orb ; - between those heights And on the top of either pinnacle , More keenly 76 THE SOLITARY .
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... Calm did he sit beneath the wide - spread tree Of his old age ; and yet less calm and meek , Winningly meek or venerably calm , Than slow and torpid ; paying in this wise A penalty , if penalty it were , For spendthrift feats , excesses ...
... Calm did he sit beneath the wide - spread tree Of his old age ; and yet less calm and meek , Winningly meek or venerably calm , Than slow and torpid ; paying in this wise A penalty , if penalty it were , For spendthrift feats , excesses ...
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age to age aught beauty behold beneath breath bright calm ceased cheerful Child Church-yard clouds Cottage course dark dead Death delight doth dwell earth Epitaph evermore exclaimed fair fair Isle faith fancy fear feel fields flowers frame Friend grace grave green grove guardian rocks hand happy hath heard heart Heaven hills holy hope hour human labour less light live lofty lonely look mind mortal mountain muse Nature Nature's o'er pains pass'd Pastor peace pensive pity pleased pleasure praise pure racter rest Rill rocks round S. T. Coleridge sate savage Nations seat seem'd shade side sight silent smile smooth Solitary solitude sorrow soul spake speak spirit spot stood stream sublime tender things thoughts tow'rd trees truth turn twas Vale vex'd Vicar virtue voice Wanderer whence wild WILLIAM WORDSWORTH winds wish words Youth
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Page 178 - Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith ; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things; Of ebb and flow, and ever-during power; And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation.
Page 82 - Far sinking into splendour — without end! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted ; here, serene pavilions bright In avenues disposed : there towers begirt With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars...
Page 419 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 166 - In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lulled his indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant strain, far sweeter than the sounds Which his poor skill could make, his fancy fetched, Even from the blazing chariot of the sun, A beardless Youth, who touched a golden lute, And filled the illumined groves with ravishment.
Page xv - I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation — and, by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures...
Page xvi - The human Soul of universal earth, Dreaming on things to come; and dost possess A metropolitan temple in the hearts Of mighty Poets : upon me bestow A gift of genuine insight ; that my Song With star-like virtue in its place may shine, Shedding benignant influence, and secure, Itself, from all malevolent effect Of those mutations that extend their sway Throughout the nether sphere...
Page 363 - Fresh power to commune with the invisible world, And hear the mighty stream of tendency Uttering, for elevation of our thought, A clear sonorous voice, inaudible To the vast multitude ; whose doom it is To run the giddy round of vain delight, Or fret and labour on the Plain below.
Page 24 - Oh, Sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket.
Page xiv - Beauty — a living presence of the earth, Surpassing the most fair ideal Forms Which craft of delicate Spirits hath composed From earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbor.
Page 42 - mid the calm oblivious tendencies Of nature, 'mid her plants, and weeds, and flowers, And silent overgrowings, still survived.