The Poetical Works of William WordsworthPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 539 páginas |
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... fancy that is swept away ; Hands joined he with his Visitant -a grasp , An eager grasp ; and many moments ' space , When the first glow of pleasure was no more , And much of what had vanished was returned , An amicable smile retained ...
... fancy that is swept away ; Hands joined he with his Visitant -a grasp , An eager grasp ; and many moments ' space , When the first glow of pleasure was no more , And much of what had vanished was returned , An amicable smile retained ...
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... Fancy , willing to set off her stores By sounding Titles , hath acquired the name Of Pompey's Pillar ; that I gravely style My Theban Obelisk ; and there , behold A Druid Cromlech ! - thus I entertain The antiquarian humor , and am ...
... Fancy , willing to set off her stores By sounding Titles , hath acquired the name Of Pompey's Pillar ; that I gravely style My Theban Obelisk ; and there , behold A Druid Cromlech ! - thus I entertain The antiquarian humor , and am ...
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... Fancy , dreaming o'er the map of things , Hath placed beyond these penetrable bounds , Words of assurance can be heard ; if nowhere A habitation , for consummate good , Nor for progressive virtue , by the search Can be attained a better ...
... Fancy , dreaming o'er the map of things , Hath placed beyond these penetrable bounds , Words of assurance can be heard ; if nowhere A habitation , for consummate good , Nor for progressive virtue , by the search Can be attained a better ...
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... Fancy for the Golden Age ; Or the perpetual warbling that prevails In Arcady , beneath unaltered skies , Through the long Year in constant quiet bound , Night hushed as night , and day serene as day ! " But why this tedious record ? Age ...
... Fancy for the Golden Age ; Or the perpetual warbling that prevails In Arcady , beneath unaltered skies , Through the long Year in constant quiet bound , Night hushed as night , and day serene as day ! " But why this tedious record ? Age ...
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... fancy feign ; Abused , as all possessions are abused That are not prized according to their worth . And yet , what worth ? what good is given to Men More solid than the gilded clouds of heaven ? What joy more lasting than a vernal ...
... fancy feign ; Abused , as all possessions are abused That are not prized according to their worth . And yet , what worth ? what good is given to Men More solid than the gilded clouds of heaven ? What joy more lasting than a vernal ...
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Página 486 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind. And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. VII Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years
Página 498 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Página 489 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. Then sing, ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song...
Página 15 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external World Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too, Theme this but little heard of among Men, The external World is fitted to the Mind ; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish : — this is our high argument.
Página 484 - 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 past away a glory from the earth.
Página 486 - From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
Página 14 - All strength, all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah, with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones, — I pass them unalarmed.
Página 433 - Nature led: more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For Nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all.
Página 488 - Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast : Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise : But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized ; High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Página 432 - 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.