The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volumen8

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Macmillan, 1896
 

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Página 182 - Not fearing toil, nor length of weary ways, He with his Father daily went, and they Were as companions, why should I relate That objects which the Shepherd loved before Were dearer now? 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?
Página 440 - Works by James Smetham. LETTERS. With an Introductory Memoir. Edited by SARAH SMETHAM and WILLIAM DAVIES. With a Portrait. LITERARY WORKS. Edited by WILLIAM DAVIES. Life of Swift. By Sir HENRY CRAIK, KCB 2 Vols.
Página 12 - Why art thou silent ? Is thy love a plant Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air Of absence withers what was once so fair ? Is there no debt to pay, no boon to grant ? Yet have my thoughts for thee been vigilant, Bound to thy service with unceasing care — The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For nought but what thy happiness could spare. Speak ! — though this soft warm heart, once free to hold A thousand tender pleasures, thine and mine, Be left more desolate, more dreary cold Than...
Página 138 - So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive, Would that the little Flowers were born to live, Conscious of half the pleasure which they give ; That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone...
Página 305 - The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets; Vaudracour and Julia; and Other Poems; to Which Is Annexed A Topographical Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England.
Página 158 - DISCOURSE was deemed Man's noblest attribute, And written words the glory of his hand ; Then followed Printing with enlarged command For thought — dominion vast and absolute For spreading truth, and making love expand. Now prose and verse sunk into disrepute Must lacquey a dumb Art that best can suit The taste of this once-intellectual Land. A backward movement surely have we here,* From manhood — back to childhood ; for the age — 10 Back towards caverned life's first rude career.
Página 188 - AMONG all lovely things my Love had been ; Had noted well the stars, all flowers that grew About her home ; but she had never seen A glow-worm, never one, and this I knew. While riding near her home one stormy night A single glow-worm did I chance to espy ; I gave a fervent welcome to the sight, And from my horse I leapt ; great joy had I. Upon a leaf the glow-worm did I lay, To bear it with me through the stormy night : And, as before, it shone without dismay ; Albeit putting forth a fainter light....
Página 440 - LEICESTER'S SCHOOL, and other writings. TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE. By CHARLES and MARY LAMB. THE LETTERS OF CHARLES LAMB.
Página 439 - SPENSER. | BACON. THE OXFORD MOVEMENT. Twelve Years, 1833-1845. THE BEGINNING OF THE MIDDLE AGES. (Included in this Series by permission of Messrs. LONGMANS &Co.) OCCASIONAL PAPERS. Selected from The Guardian^ The Times, and The Saturday Review, 1846-1890. 2 Vols.
Página 214 - What want we? have we not perpetual streams, Warm woods, and sunny hills, and fresh green fields, And mountains not less green, and flocks and herds, And thickets full of songsters, and the voice Of lordly birds, an unexpected sound Heard now and then from morn to latest eve Admonishing the man who walks below Of solitude and silence in the sky?

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