The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 7Little, Brown, 1854 |
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Pagina 9
... earth is all before me . With a heart Joyous , nor scared at its own liberty , I look about ; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud , I cannot miss my way . I breathe again ! Trances of thought and ...
... earth is all before me . With a heart Joyous , nor scared at its own liberty , I look about ; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud , I cannot miss my way . I breathe again ! Trances of thought and ...
Pagina 12
... earth dropped with a startling sound . From that soft couch I rose not , till the sun Had almost touched the horizon ; casting then A backward glance upon the curling cloud Of city smoke , by distance ruralized ; Keen as a Truant or a ...
... earth dropped with a startling sound . From that soft couch I rose not , till the sun Had almost touched the horizon ; casting then A backward glance upon the curling cloud Of city smoke , by distance ruralized ; Keen as a Truant or a ...
Pagina 21
... earth , —and with what motion moved the clouds ! Dust as we are , the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music ; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles . Discordant elements , makes them cling together In one society ...
... earth , —and with what motion moved the clouds ! Dust as we are , the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music ; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles . Discordant elements , makes them cling together In one society ...
Pagina 25
... earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round ! Behind me did they stretch in solemn train , Feebler and feebler , and I stood and watched Till all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep . Ye Presences of Nature in the sky And on ...
... earth had rolled With visible motion her diurnal round ! Behind me did they stretch in solemn train , Feebler and feebler , and I stood and watched Till all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep . Ye Presences of Nature in the sky And on ...
Pagina 28
... and joy . Yes , I remember when the changeful earth , And twice five summers on my mind had stamped The faces of the moving year , even then I held unconscious intercourse with beauty Old as creation , 28 THE PRELUDE .
... and joy . Yes , I remember when the changeful earth , And twice five summers on my mind had stamped The faces of the moving year , even then I held unconscious intercourse with beauty Old as creation , 28 THE PRELUDE .
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Pagina 343 - I trust is their destiny? — to console the afflicted; to add sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier ; to teach the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous...
Pagina 114 - Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they might answer him.
Pagina 348 - 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!
Pagina 49 - O'er all that leaps and runs, and shouts and sings, Or beats the gladsome air; o'er all that glides Beneath the wave, yea, in the wave itself, And mighty depth of waters. Wonder not If high the transport, great the joy I felt, Communing in this sort through earth and heaven With every form of creature, as it looked Towards the Uncreated with a countenance Of adoration, with an eye of love. One song they sang, and it was audible, Most audible, then, when the fleshly ear, O'ercome by humblest prelude...
Pagina 146 - 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.
Pagina 4 - Recluse;' as having for its principal subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement.
Pagina 291 - Of life: the hiding-places of man's power Open; I would approach them, but they close. I see by glimpses now ; when age comes on, May scarcely see at all; and I would give, While yet we may, as far as words can give, Substance and life to what I feel, enshrining, Such is my hope, the spirit of the Past For future restoration.
Pagina 44 - For feeling has to him imparted power That through the growing faculties of sense Doth like an agent of the one great Mind Create, creator and receiver both, Working but in alliance with the works Which it beholds.
Pagina 413 - A SIMPLE child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death? I met a little cottage girl : She was eight years old, she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad; Her eyes were fair, and very fair; — Her beauty made me glad. " Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many...
Pagina 319 - This spiritual Love acts not nor can exist Without Imagination, which, in truth, Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And Reason in her most exalted mood.