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... line of the most beautiful and memorable poetry . In the In- troductions the endeavor has been made to set the poems in their en- vironment , so to speak , by sketching briefly the development of the poem and of the poet ; by bringing ...
... line of the most beautiful and memorable poetry . In the In- troductions the endeavor has been made to set the poems in their en- vironment , so to speak , by sketching briefly the development of the poem and of the poet ; by bringing ...
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... lines Are footpaths for the thought of Italy ! Thy flame is blown abroad from all the heights , Through all the nations , and a sound is heard , 1 Last stanza omitted . As of a mighty wind , and men devout , 59 Six Sonnets from Longfellow.
... lines Are footpaths for the thought of Italy ! Thy flame is blown abroad from all the heights , Through all the nations , and a sound is heard , 1 Last stanza omitted . As of a mighty wind , and men devout , 59 Six Sonnets from Longfellow.
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... mighty wind , and men devout , Strangers of Rome , and the new prose- lytes , In their own language hear thy won- drous word , And many are amazed and many doubt . S THE LINES ON TIN- IN TERN ABBEY N 1793 60 Six Sonnets from Longfellow.
... mighty wind , and men devout , Strangers of Rome , and the new prose- lytes , In their own language hear thy won- drous word , And many are amazed and many doubt . S THE LINES ON TIN- IN TERN ABBEY N 1793 60 Six Sonnets from Longfellow.
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... for the first time . Five years later he revisited the country about the Ab- bey , and so vivid and urgent was the impression it made upon him that he began at once to compose the " Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey " 61.
... for the first time . Five years later he revisited the country about the Ab- bey , and so vivid and urgent was the impression it made upon him that he began at once to compose the " Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey " 61.
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... lines as he walked across the terraces and hills about Grasmere and Windermere ; " booing , " his ru- ral neighbors used to call it . The Abbey , the key to the land- scape which inspired the " Lines , " characterized by one of his ...
... lines as he walked across the terraces and hills about Grasmere and Windermere ; " booing , " his ru- ral neighbors used to call it . The Abbey , the key to the land- scape which inspired the " Lines , " characterized by one of his ...
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Allen-a-Dale artist ballad Barbara Allen beauty bird Blessed Damosel Burns charm Chorus Crashaw dear death deep delight diction earth Echion English poetry exquisite eyes father feeling fire flowers fresh friends genius gift Grecian Urn Hamad Hamadryad hand happy hast heard heart heaven HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Herrick human imagination immortal impulse INTRODUCTIONS TO NOTABLE Israfel Keats Landor later leaves lines literature lived Longfellow lyric magical master Matthew Arnold melody ment mind nature ness never noble NOTABLE POEMS o'er passion PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Petrarch phrase poet poetic qualities Rhaicos rich RICHARD LOVELACE ROBERT HERRICK Rossetti sense Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's singer singing song sonnets soul spirit sweet tenderness Tennyson Thallinos thee thine things thou art thought Tintern Abbey tion touch tree Ulysses voice WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wilt thou words Wordsworth wrote young
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Page 73 - To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime ; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened...
Page 42 - What thou art we know not; What is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a Poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Page 41 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see — we feel that it is there.
Page 206 - Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Page 193 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 100 - Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Page 207 - My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads...
Page 205 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Page 44 - Waking or asleep, Thou of death must deem Things more true and deep Than we mortals dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream ? We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Or sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.