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If the sun be shining hot , do but stretch thy woollen chain , This beech is standing
by , its covert thou canst gain ; For rain and mountain storms ! the like thou need '
st not fearThe rain and storm are things that scarcely can come here .
If the sun be shining hot , do but stretch thy woollen chain , This beech is standing
by , its covert thou canst gain ; For rain and mountain storms ! the like thou need '
st not fearThe rain and storm are things that scarcely can come here .
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He dwells in the centre of London ' s wide town ; His staff is a sceptre - his gray
hairs a crown ; Erect as a sunflower he stands , and the streak Of the unfaded
rose still enlivens his cheek . Mid the dews , in the sunshine of morn , mid the joy
Of ...
He dwells in the centre of London ' s wide town ; His staff is a sceptre - his gray
hairs a crown ; Erect as a sunflower he stands , and the streak Of the unfaded
rose still enlivens his cheek . Mid the dews , in the sunshine of morn , mid the joy
Of ...
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Yet he watches the clouds that pass over the streets ; With a look of such
earnestness often will stand , You might think he ' d twelve reapers at work in the
Strand . Where proud Covent Garden , in desolate hours Of snow and hoar - frost
...
Yet he watches the clouds that pass over the streets ; With a look of such
earnestness often will stand , You might think he ' d twelve reapers at work in the
Strand . Where proud Covent Garden , in desolate hours Of snow and hoar - frost
...
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... it muffled up from harm , In close self - shelter , like a thing at rest . But lately ,
one rough day , this flower I passed And recognized it , though an altered form ,
Now standing forth an offering to the blast , And buffeted at will by rain and storm .
... it muffled up from harm , In close self - shelter , like a thing at rest . But lately ,
one rough day , this flower I passed And recognized it , though an altered form ,
Now standing forth an offering to the blast , And buffeted at will by rain and storm .
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yet wise and well ; Well chosen is the spirit that is here ; That hulk which labours
in the deadly swell , This rueful sky , this pageantry of fear ! And this huge castle ,
standing here sublime , I love to see the look with which it braves , Cased in the ...
yet wise and well ; Well chosen is the spirit that is here ; That hulk which labours
in the deadly swell , This rueful sky , this pageantry of fear ! And this huge castle ,
standing here sublime , I love to see the look with which it braves , Cased in the ...
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Page 1 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 130 - Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind...
Page 203 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill...
Page 190 - Thus Nature spake — the work was done; — How soon my Lucy's race was run! She died, and left to me This heath, this calm and quiet scene; The memory of what has been, And never more will be.
Page 132 - The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, he has viewed ; And impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude.
Page 14 - SIMPLE Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage Girl : She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad: Her eyes were fair, and very fair ; — Her beauty made me glad. "Sisters and brothers, little Maid, How many may you be?" "How many? Seven in all," she said, And wondering looked at me.
Page 179 - 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 4 - 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 - Upon the glassy plain; and oftentimes, When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, reclining back upon my heels, Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs Wheeled by me, — even as if the earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round"! Behind me did they stretch in solemn train, Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watched Till all was tranquil as a...
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| Title | Poems, selected from the best eds, Volume 1 Miniature libr. of the poets Poems, selected from the best eds, William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) |
| Author | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) |
| Published | 1880 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2006 |
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