A selection from the works of William Wordsworth, selected and arranged by F.T. Palgrave

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Pagina 214 - THE SOLITARY REAPER BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass ! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass ! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; O listen ! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.
Pagina 21 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine ; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine ; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam ; True to the kindred points of Heaven
Pagina 53 - bosom all the year; And worship'st at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not. XLIU BY THE SEA-SIDE 1802 THE sun is couched, the sea-fowl gone to rest, And the wild storm hath somewhere found a nest; Air
Pagina 6 - VII I TRAVELLED among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor, England ! did I know till then What love I bore to thee. 'Tis past, that melancholy dream ! Nor will I quit thy shore A second time; for still I seem To love thee more and
Pagina 152 - The sun, above the mountain's head, A freshening lustre mellow Through all the long green fields has spread, His first sweet evening yellow. Books ! 'tis a dull and endless strife : Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music ! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark ! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean
Pagina 2 - A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller between life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; A
Pagina 168 - I had, my Country !—am I to be blamed ? Now, when I think of thee, and what thou art, Verily, in the bottom of my heart, Of those unfilial fears I am ashamed. For dearly must we prize thee; we who find In thee a bulwark for the cause of men ; And I by my affection was beguiled
Pagina 117 - that from the Boy there came Feelings and emanations—things which were Light to the sun and music to the wind; And that the old Man's heart seemed born again ? Thus in his Father's sight the Boy grew up : And now, when he had reached his eighteenth year He was his comfort and his daily hope.
Pagina 162 - Which they can hear who meddle not with crime, Nor avarice, nor over-anxious care. Truth fails not; but her outward forms that bear The longest date do melt like frosty rime, That in the morning whitened hill and plain And is no more; drop like the tower sublime Of yesterday, which royally did wear
Pagina 211 - TO A HIGHLAND GIRL AT INVERSNEYDE, UPON LOCH LOMOND SWEET Highland Girl, a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower ! Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head : And these grey rocks; that household lawn ; Those trees, a veil just half withdrawn; This fall of water that doth make A murmur near the silent

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