The Poems of William Wordsworth, Volume 2Methuen, 1908 |
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... things are made and managed there . Change for the worse might please , incursion bold Into the tracts of darkness and of cold : O'er Limbo lake with aëry flight to steer , And on the verge of Chaos hang in fear . Such animation often ...
... things are made and managed there . Change for the worse might please , incursion bold Into the tracts of darkness and of cold : O'er Limbo lake with aëry flight to steer , And on the verge of Chaos hang in fear . Such animation often ...
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... things are made and managed there . Change for the worse might please , incursion bold Into the tracts of darkness and of cold : O'er Limbo lake with aëry flight to steer , And on the verge of Chaos hang in fear . Such animation often ...
... things are made and managed there . Change for the worse might please , incursion bold Into the tracts of darkness and of cold : O'er Limbo lake with aëry flight to steer , And on the verge of Chaos hang in fear . Such animation often ...
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... ? - Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old , unhappy , far - off things , And battles long ago : ΤΟ 20 Or is it some more humble lay , Familiar matter 12 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Solitary Reaper Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch PAGE.
... ? - Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old , unhappy , far - off things , And battles long ago : ΤΟ 20 Or is it some more humble lay , Familiar matter 12 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Solitary Reaper Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch PAGE.
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... thing that meaner hills Might crush , nor know that it had suffered harm ; ) Yet he , not loth , in favour of thy claims To reverence , suspends his own ; submitting All that the God of Nature hath conferred , All that he holds in ...
... thing that meaner hills Might crush , nor know that it had suffered harm ; ) Yet he , not loth , in favour of thy claims To reverence , suspends his own ; submitting All that the God of Nature hath conferred , All that he holds in ...
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... things He sought his moral creed . Said generous Rob , ' What need of books ? Burn all the statutes and their shelves : They stir us up against our kind ; And worse , against ourselves . ' We have a passion - make a law , Too false to ...
... things He sought his moral creed . Said generous Rob , ' What need of books ? Burn all the statutes and their shelves : They stir us up against our kind ; And worse , against ourselves . ' We have a passion - make a law , Too false to ...
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Page 337 - STERN Daughter of the Voice of God! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove...
Page 315 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Page 324 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Page 33 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 30 - ONCE did she hold the gorgeous east in fee ; And was the safeguard of the west : the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of liberty. She was a maiden city, bright and free ; No guile seduced, no force could violate ; And, when she took unto herself a mate, She must espouse the everlasting sea.
Page 32 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty...
Page 338 - Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature be, When love is an unerring light, And joy its own security. And they a blissful course may hold Even now, who, not unwisely bold, Live in the spirit of this creed; Yet seek thy firm support, according to their need.
Page 324 - 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. In common things that round us lie Some random truths he can impart, — The harvest of a quiet eye That broods and sleeps on his own heart.
Page 33 - In the open sunshine, or we are unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking are no more: The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. LONDON, 1802 Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee...
Page 327 - was well begun, Then from thy breast what thought, Beneath so beautiful a sun, So sad a sigh has brought?" A second time did Matthew stop; And fixing still his eye Upon the eastern mountain-top, To me he made reply...