Poems of WordsworthGeorge Newnes, Limited, 1904 - 639 pages |
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... wings . THE SPARROW'S NEST BEHOLD , within the leafy shade , Those bright blue eggs together laid ! On me the chance - discovered sight Gleamed like a vision of delight . I started seeming to espy The home and sheltered bed , The ...
... wings . THE SPARROW'S NEST BEHOLD , within the leafy shade , Those bright blue eggs together laid ! On me the chance - discovered sight Gleamed like a vision of delight . I started seeming to espy The home and sheltered bed , The ...
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... wings when they are weary ; Here lodge as in a sanctuary ! Come often to us , fear no wrong ; Sit near us on the bough ! We'll talk of sunshine and of song , And summer days , when we were young ; Sweet childish days , that were as long ...
... wings when they are weary ; Here lodge as in a sanctuary ! Come often to us , fear no wrong ; Sit near us on the bough ! We'll talk of sunshine and of song , And summer days , when we were young ; Sweet childish days , that were as long ...
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... wings , its chariot , and its horse , Its playmate , rather say , its moving soul . And often , trifling with a privilege Alike indulged to all , we paused , one now , And now the other , to point out , perchance To pluck , some flower ...
... wings , its chariot , and its horse , Its playmate , rather say , its moving soul . And often , trifling with a privilege Alike indulged to all , we paused , one now , And now the other , to point out , perchance To pluck , some flower ...
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... wings Upon his back and body flings Shadows and sunny glimmerings , That cover him all over . My dazzled sight he oft deceives , A brother of the dancing leaves ; Then flits , and from the cottage eaves Pours forth his song in gushes ...
... wings Upon his back and body flings Shadows and sunny glimmerings , That cover him all over . My dazzled sight he oft deceives , A brother of the dancing leaves ; Then flits , and from the cottage eaves Pours forth his song in gushes ...
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... wings of a faery , Up to thee would I fly . There is madness about thee , and joy divine In that song of thine ; Lift me , guide me , high and high To thy banqueting place in the sky . Joyous as morning , Thou art laughing and scorning ...
... wings of a faery , Up to thee would I fly . There is madness about thee , and joy divine In that song of thine ; Lift me , guide me , high and high To thy banqueting place in the sky . Joyous as morning , Thou art laughing and scorning ...
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Apennine aught beauty behold beneath bird BLACK COMB blest bower breath breeze bright CALAIS calm cheer clouds dear deep delight divine doth dream drest dwell earth fair faith fancy fear feel flowers gazed gentle gleam glory grace Grasmere grave green grove happy hath heard heart heaven height Helvellyn heroic arts hill hope hour human lake Laodamia light living LOCH LOMOND lofty lonely look Martha Ray memory mind morning mortal mountains murmur muse Nature Nature's night o'er Ossian passed peace pleasure POEMS praise rapture rill RIVER DUDDON RIVER EDEN Rob Roy rock round Scotland shade shepherd shore side sight silent SIMPLON PASS smooth song soul sound spirit STAFFA stars steep stone stream sweet thee thine things thou thought tower trees truth vale voice wandering wild wind wings woods Yarrow youth
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Page 196 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen' the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.
Page 108 - Thus Nature spake — The work was done — How soon my Lucy's race was run ! She died, and left to me This heath, this calm, and quiet scene; The memory of what has been, And never more will be. " A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal...
Page 100 - Thou bringest unto me a tale Of visionary hours. "Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring! Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery...
Page 200 - COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river...
Page 144 - Five years have past ; five summers, with the length Of five long winters ! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a soft inland murmur. — Once again Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion ; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky. The day is come when I again repose Here, under this dark sycamore, and view...
Page 145 - 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.
Page 109 - That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company:...
Page 105 - 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 way-lay.
Page 546 - The invisible world, doth greatness make abode, There harbours ; whether we be young or old, Our destiny, our being's heart and home, Is with infinitude, and only there ; With hope it is, hope that can never die. Effort, and expectation, and desire, And something evermore about to be.
Page 594 - One adequate support For the calamities of mortal life Exists — one only ; an assured belief That the procession of our fate, howe'er Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence and power ; Whose everlasting purposes embrace All accidents, converting them to good.