Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did... The poetical works of william wordsworth - Page 1341892Full view - About this book
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou had'st a voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. WORDSWORTH. The absent Rose. Why is it that on Clara's face The lily only has a place ? Is it that... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...power. Thy soul was like a Star and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In chearful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay. 140 Great Men have been... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay, XV. Gu EAT Men have been among us ; hands that penn'd And tongues that uttered wisdom,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...power. Thy soul was like a Star and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay. 1803. XV. GIIEAT Men have been among us ; hands that penn'd And tongues that uttered... | |
| England - 1854 - 758 pages
...power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." " Miltone, vellem nunc quoque viveres : Te nostra, te nunc postulat Anglia : Quae, more coeoosie paludis,... | |
| Theology - 1836 - 698 pages
...power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou had'st a voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So did'st...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did l.-iv.' vol. ii. p. 329. His esteem for the great men of English history rises to a sublime... | |
| William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. France lacks GREAT men have been among us; hands that penned Great Men And tongues that uttered wisdom... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestie, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. SONNET. ON THE FINAL SUBMISSION OF THE TYROLESE, IT was a moral end for which they fought ; Else how,... | |
| Methodist Church - 1839 - 512 pages
...power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." Work*, p. 213. But we pass on to notice Wordsworth's power of description, as a second distinguishing... | |
| Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1832 - 264 pages
...lines of Wordsworth apply to his character:— " Thy soul was like a Star and dwelt apart: Pure aa the naked heavens, majestic free, ******* So dids't...godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." My father was a courtier, at least he was frequently about the person of our good... | |
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