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... sight of a bare rock moves the poet to intense emotion . Triviality to him means the vulgar and ridiculous trimmings which the human intellect has invented to embellish or conceal the facts of existence and so entirely to destroy their ...
... sight of a bare rock moves the poet to intense emotion . Triviality to him means the vulgar and ridiculous trimmings which the human intellect has invented to embellish or conceal the facts of existence and so entirely to destroy their ...
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... sight and sound in his environment ; and when he wrote in moments of exulta- tion " nature herself , " it has been said , " seems to take the pen out of his hand and to write for him with her own bare , sheer , penetrating power ...
... sight and sound in his environment ; and when he wrote in moments of exulta- tion " nature herself , " it has been said , " seems to take the pen out of his hand and to write for him with her own bare , sheer , penetrating power ...
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... sight Of fields with rural works , of hill and dale , And the blue sky , one little span of earth Is all his prospect . Thus , from day to day , Bow - bent , his eyes for ever on the ground , He plies his weary journey ; seeing still ...
... sight Of fields with rural works , of hill and dale , And the blue sky , one little span of earth Is all his prospect . Thus , from day to day , Bow - bent , his eyes for ever on the ground , He plies his weary journey ; seeing still ...
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... mind , To have the Young - one in his sight , when he Wrought in the field , or on his shepherd's stool Sate with a fettered sheep before him stretched 130 140 150 160 Under the large old oak , that near his door 25 MICHAEL.
... mind , To have the Young - one in his sight , when he Wrought in the field , or on his shepherd's stool Sate with a fettered sheep before him stretched 130 140 150 160 Under the large old oak , that near his door 25 MICHAEL.
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... sight the Boy grew up : And now , when he had reached his eighteenth year , He was his comfort and his daily hope . While in this sort the simple household lived From day to day , to Michael's ear there came Distressful tidings . Long ...
... sight the Boy grew up : And now , when he had reached his eighteenth year , He was his comfort and his daily hope . While in this sort the simple household lived From day to day , to Michael's ear there came Distressful tidings . Long ...
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Page 53 - The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Page 18 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Page 88 - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 39 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 78 - The Sun now rose upon the right: Out of the sea came he, Still hid in mist, and on the left Went down into the sea. " And the good south wind still blew behind, But no sweet bird did follow, Nor any day for food or play Came to the mariners
Page 93 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach.
Page 80 - Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot : O Christ ! That ever this should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
Page 9 - The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings. Therefore let the moon Shine on thee in thy solitary walk; And let the misty mountain-winds be free To blow against thee...
Page 175 - Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion, This pilot is guiding me, Lured by the love of the genii that move In the depths of the purple sea; Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills, Over the lakes and the plains, Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream, The Spirit he loves remains; And I all the while bask in Heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains.
Page 89 - The harbour-bay was clear as glass, So smoothly it was strewn! And on the bay the moonlight lay, And the shadow of the Moon. The rock shone bright, the kirk no less, That stands above the rock: The moonlight steeped in silentness The steady weathercock. And the bay was white with silent light, Till rising from the same, Full many shapes, that shadows were, In crimson colours came.