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.... Characters and Criticisms - Page 65by William Alfred Jones - 1857Full view - About this book
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou had'st a voice whose sound was like the...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, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...return, to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the...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
...return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the...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
...return to us again, And give ui manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." " Miltone, vellem nunc quoque viveres : Te nostra, te nunc postulat Anglia : Quae, more coeoosie paludis,... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 362 pages
...return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. XV GREAT Men have been among us ; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom, better none :... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 482 pages
...return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. XV. GREAT Men have been among us ; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom, better none :... | |
| Theology - 1836 - 698 pages
...return to us again ; And give us mii1iners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou had'st a voice whose sound was like the...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
...return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the...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... | |
| William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwell apart : WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS. Thou 1ml- 1 a Yoice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens,...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties OD herself did lay. GIEAT Meu have been among us; hands that penned 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,... | |
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