Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author : with Additional Poems, a New Preface, and a Supplementary EssayLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815 - 527 pages |
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... live , and what is it you do ? " He with a smile did then his words repeat ; And said , that , gathering Leeches , far and wide He travelled ; stirring thus about his feet The waters of the Ponds where they abide . " Once I could meet ...
... live , and what is it you do ? " He with a smile did then his words repeat ; And said , that , gathering Leeches , far and wide He travelled ; stirring thus about his feet The waters of the Ponds where they abide . " Once I could meet ...
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... live peace , and peace of mind . " In " For why ? —because the good old Rule " Sufficeth them , the simple Plan , " That they should take who have the power , " And they should keep who can . " A lesson which is quickly learned , " A ...
... live peace , and peace of mind . " In " For why ? —because the good old Rule " Sufficeth them , the simple Plan , " That they should take who have the power , " And they should keep who can . " A lesson which is quickly learned , " A ...
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... live With us who now behold the light , Thou would'st have nobly stirred thyself , And battled for the Right . For thou wert still the poor Man's stay , The poor man's heart , the poor man's hand ; And all the oppress'd , who wanted ...
... live With us who now behold the light , Thou would'st have nobly stirred thyself , And battled for the Right . For thou wert still the poor Man's stay , The poor man's heart , the poor man's hand ; And all the oppress'd , who wanted ...
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... Lives with him , near the waterfall , Upon the village Common . Old Ruth works out of doors with him , And does what Simon cannot do ; For she , not over stout of limb , Is stouter of the two . And , though you with your utmost skill ...
... Lives with him , near the waterfall , Upon the village Common . Old Ruth works out of doors with him , And does what Simon cannot do ; For she , not over stout of limb , Is stouter of the two . And , though you with your utmost skill ...
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... live and sing my idle songs Upon these happy plains , " And , Matthew , for thy Children dead I'll be a son to thee ! " At this he grasped my hand , and said " Alas ! that cannot be . " We rose up from the fountain - side ; And down the ...
... live and sing my idle songs Upon these happy plains , " And , Matthew , for thy Children dead I'll be a son to thee ! " At this he grasped my hand , and said " Alas ! that cannot be . " We rose up from the fountain - side ; And down the ...
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beauty behold beneath birds Black Comb blessed bower brave breath bright BROUGHAM CASTLE Busk CALAIS calm cheer Child Clifford clouds Coleorton Countess of Pembroke dark dear delight doth dream earth fair fear feelings fields Flower Friend Grasmere grave green grove happy hath hear heard heart Heaven hill hope hour human labour language live lofty look Lord Clifford Martha Ray metre metrical mighty mind morning mountain murmur nature never o'er objects oh misery pain passion PEEL CASTLE pleasure Poems Poet poetic diction Poetry poor praise pride prose Reader Rob Roy rock round Shepherd sight silent Simon Lee sing Skiddaw sleep song sorrow soul sound spirit stand stone strife sweet thee thine things Thorn thou art thought trees truth Twill Vale verse voice waters wild wind wood words Yarrow Ye Men youth
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Page 189 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 336 - 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; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile!
Page 364 - Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect...
Page 346 - Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make ; I see The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee ; My heart is at your festival, My head hath its coronal, The fulness of your bliss, I feel - I feel it all.
Page 345 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath past away a glory from the earth.
Page 28 - 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 352 - 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 27 - But how can He expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all? I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride...
Page 78 - Of tender joy wilt thou remember me, And these my exhortations! Nor, perchance — If I should be where I no more can hear Thy voice, nor catch from thy wild eyes these gleams Of past existence — wilt thou then forget That on the banks of this delightful stream We stood together; and that I, so long A worshipper of Nature, hither came Unwearied in that service: rather say With warmer love — oh! with far deeper zeal Of holier love.
Page 351 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...