Selections from WordsworthMacmillan, 1897 - 215 pages |
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Alfoxden beautiful behold bird bliss bower bright Brougham Castle calm child childhood clouds Coleridge COMPOSED cuckoo Daffodils death delight Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal dost doth dream earth earthly Excursion Faery Faery Queene fear feelings flowers gleam glory Grasmere happy Hart-leap hath heart heaven Helvellyn human Intimations of Immortality INTRODUCTION lake Laodamia light lines living Loch Voil lofty London lonely Milton mind moral mountains Nature's nest o'er Ode to Duty passion Peele Castle pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poetry Prelude primrose published in 1807 Rob Roy Robin rock Rydal sense Shaks Shelley sight silent sing sister Sky-lark sleep Solitary Reaper song sonnet sorrow soul sound spirit spring stanza stars sweet sympathy Tennyson thee things thou art thought Tintern Abbey Town-end trees Venetian Republic voice Westminster Bridge wind wings woods Wordsworth Wordsworth says written
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Page xlii - She shall be sportive as the Fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain springs ; And hers shall be the breathing balm, And hers the silence and the calm Of mute insensate things. " The floating Clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Page 42 - These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration...
Page 87 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong: I hear the echoes through the mountains throng, The winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity.
Page xxii - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.
Page xxx - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Page 71 - The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
Page 90 - Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast : — Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not...
Page 91 - 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 44 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth...
Page 89 - Some fragment from his dream of human life, Shaped by himself with newly-learned art; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral; And this hath now his heart, And unto this he frames his song: Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business, love, or strife; But it will not be long Ere this be thrown aside, 100 And with new joy and pride The little Actor cons another part; Filling from time to time his "humorous stage...