Poems of Wordsworth, Volume 1W. Kent & Company, 1880 |
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... half wild- " Then come with me into the chaise . " She sate like one past all relief : Sob after sob she forth did send In wretchedness , as if her grief Could never , never have an end . " My child , in Durham do you dwell ? " She ...
... half wild- " Then come with me into the chaise . " She sate like one past all relief : Sob after sob she forth did send In wretchedness , as if her grief Could never , never have an end . " My child , in Durham do you dwell ? " She ...
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... half a week after , the wind sallied forth , And , in anger or merriment , out of the north Coming on with a terrible pother , From the peak of the crag blew the giant away . And what did these school - boys ? The very next day They ...
... half a week after , the wind sallied forth , And , in anger or merriment , out of the north Coming on with a terrible pother , From the peak of the crag blew the giant away . And what did these school - boys ? The very next day They ...
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... half of it was hers , and one half of it was mine . Again , and once again , did I repeat the song ; " Nay , ” said I , " more than half to the damsel must belong , For she looked with such a look , and she spake with such a tone , That ...
... half of it was hers , and one half of it was mine . Again , and once again , did I repeat the song ; " Nay , ” said I , " more than half to the damsel must belong , For she looked with such a look , and she spake with such a tone , That ...
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... half a year . " Cross , if you dare , where I shall cross- Come on , and in my footsteps tread ! " The other took him at his word , And followed as he led . It was a spot which you may see If ever you to Langdale go ; Into a chasm a ...
... half a year . " Cross , if you dare , where I shall cross- Come on , and in my footsteps tread ! " The other took him at his word , And followed as he led . It was a spot which you may see If ever you to Langdale go ; Into a chasm a ...
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... and the small mountain birds , Not venturing yet to peck their destined meal , Approached within the length of half his staff . Him from my childhood have I known ; and then CHILDHOOD AND AGE . 31 The Old Cumberland Beggar.
... and the small mountain birds , Not venturing yet to peck their destined meal , Approached within the length of half his staff . Him from my childhood have I known ; and then CHILDHOOD AND AGE . 31 The Old Cumberland Beggar.
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Page 198 - SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair ; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 4 - 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, And with new joy and pride The little actor cons another part, Filling from time to time his "humorous stage...
Page 199 - Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then Nature said, " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. " Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page 17 - Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be ? " "How many? Seven in all," she said, And wondering looked at me. " And where are they ? I pray you tell...
Page 4 - mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes ! See, at his feet, some little plan or chart, Some fragment from his dream of human life, Shaped by himself with...
Page 18 - Twelve steps or more from my mother's door, And they are side by side. " My stockings there I often knit, My kerchief there I hem ; And there upon the ground I sit— I sit and sing to them.
Page 225 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense: Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Page 246 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie, His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Page 138 - 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 254 - Is lightened — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on — Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.