Poems of Wordsworth, Volume 1W. Kent & Company, 1880 |
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... youth , who daily farther from the east Must travel , still is nature's priest , And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At length the man perceives it die away , And fade into the light of common day . Earth fills her lap ...
... youth , who daily farther from the east Must travel , still is nature's priest , And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended ; At length the man perceives it die away , And fade into the light of common day . Earth fills her lap ...
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... YOUTH . WISDOM and Spirit of the universe ! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought , And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion ! not in vain , By day or star light , thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst ...
... YOUTH . WISDOM and Spirit of the universe ! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought , And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion ! not in vain , By day or star light , thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst ...
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... youths , And urchins newly breeched - all pass him by : Him even the slow - paced waggon leaves behind . But deem not this man useless . — Statesmen ! ye Who are so restless in your wisdom , ye Who have a broom still ready in your hands ...
... youths , And urchins newly breeched - all pass him by : Him even the slow - paced waggon leaves behind . But deem not this man useless . — Statesmen ! ye Who are so restless in your wisdom , ye Who have a broom still ready in your hands ...
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... youth Age might but take the things youth needed not ! THE TWO THIEVES ; OR , THE LAST STAGE OF AVARICE . Он , now that the genius of Bewick were mine , And the skill which he learned on the banks of the Tyne ! Then the muses might deal ...
... youth Age might but take the things youth needed not ! THE TWO THIEVES ; OR , THE LAST STAGE OF AVARICE . Он , now that the genius of Bewick were mine , And the skill which he learned on the banks of the Tyne ! Then the muses might deal ...
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... youth was dedicate To sacred studies ; and the Roman shepherd Gave to my charge Urbino's numerous flock . Much did I watch , much laboured , nor had power To escape from many and strange indignities ; Was smitten by the great ones of ...
... youth was dedicate To sacred studies ; and the Roman shepherd Gave to my charge Urbino's numerous flock . Much did I watch , much laboured , nor had power To escape from many and strange indignities ; Was smitten by the great ones of ...
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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.