The excursion, being a portion of The recluse, a poem |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... less idly , sought , through every nook In house or garden , any casual work Of use or ornament , and with a strange , Amusing , yet uneasy , novelty , He mingled , where he might , the various tasks THE WANDERER . 23.
... less idly , sought , through every nook In house or garden , any casual work Of use or ornament , and with a strange , Amusing , yet uneasy , novelty , He mingled , where he might , the various tasks THE WANDERER . 23.
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... less For the peculiar pains they had required , Declined their languid heads , wanting support . The cumbrous bind - weed , with its wreaths and bells , Had twined about her two small rows of peas , And dragged them to the earth . Was ...
... less For the peculiar pains they had required , Declined their languid heads , wanting support . The cumbrous bind - weed , with its wreaths and bells , Had twined about her two small rows of peas , And dragged them to the earth . Was ...
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... less regard Accompanied those strains of apt discourse , Which nature's various objects might inspire ; And in the silence of his face I read His overflowing spirit . Birds and beasts , And the mute fish that glances in the stream , And ...
... less regard Accompanied those strains of apt discourse , Which nature's various objects might inspire ; And in the silence of his face I read His overflowing spirit . Birds and beasts , And the mute fish that glances in the stream , And ...
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... ; Lax , buoyant - less a pastor with his flock Than a soldier among soldiers - lived and roamed Where Fortune led : -and Fortune , who oft proves The careless wanderer's friend , to him made known A THE SOLITARY . 47.
... ; Lax , buoyant - less a pastor with his flock Than a soldier among soldiers - lived and roamed Where Fortune led : -and Fortune , who oft proves The careless wanderer's friend , to him made known A THE SOLITARY . 47.
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age to age aught BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER beauty behold beneath breath bright calm cheerful cloth clouds cottage course dark death delight doth dwell earth EDWARD MOXON epitaph evermore exclaimed fair fair Isle faith fear feel fields flowers frame Friend grace grave green grove hand happy hath heart heaven hills holy honoured hope hour human immortality JUSTIN MARTYR labour less living lofty lonely look mind morocco mortal mountain nature nature's o'er passed Pastor peace pensive PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE pity POEMS praise Price pure rest rocks round S. T. Coleridge sate savage nations Scotland seat shade side sight silent smile smooth Solitary solitude SORDELLO sorrow soul spake spirit stars stood stream sublime tender things thoughts trees truth turf turned vale virtue voice volume 8vo walk Wanderer whence wild WILLIAM WORDSWORTH winds wish words youth
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Página 11 - The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!
Página 102 - Turned inward, to examine of what stuff Time's fetters are composed ; and life was put To inquisition long and profitless! By pain of heart now checked — and now impelled — The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way...
Página 152 - Within the soul a faculty abides, That \vith interpositions, which would hide And darken, so can deal that they become Contingencies of pomp ; and serve to exalt Her native brightness. As the ample moon, In the deep stillness of a summer even Rising behind a thick and lofty grove, Burns, like an unconsuming fire of light, In the green trees ; and, kindling on all sides Their leafy umbrage, turns the dusky veil Into a substance glorious as her own, Yea, with her own incorporated, by power Capacious...
Página 127 - Happy is he who lives to understand Not human nature only, but explores All natures, to the end that he may find The law that governs each : and where begins The union, the partition where, that makes Kind and degree among all visible beings ; The constitutions, powers, and faculties...
Página xiii - Such grateful haunts foregoing, if I oft Must turn elsewhere — to travel near the tribes And fellowships of men, and see ill sights Of madding passions mutually inflamed ; Must hear Humanity in fields and groves Pipe solitary anguish ; or must hang Brooding above the fierce confederate storm Of sorrow, barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities...
Página 71 - With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars — illumination of all gems ! By earthly nature had the effect been wrought...
Página 18 - By loneliness, and goodness, and kind works, Whate'er, in docile childhood or in youth, He had imbibed of fear or darker thought Was melted all away; so true was this, That sometimes his religion seemed to me Self-taught, as of a dreamer in the woods ; Who to the model of his own pure heart Shaped his belief, as grace divine inspired, And human reason dictated with awe.
Página 85 - Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop Than when we soar." — The Other, not displeased, Promptly replied — " My notion is the same. And I, without reluctance, could decline All act of inquisition whence we rise, And what, when breath hath ceased, we may become. Here are we, in a bright and breathing world. Our origin, what matters it ? In lack Of worthier explanation, say at once With the American (a thought which suits...
Página 139 - Presented sacrifice to moon and stars, And to the winds and mother elements, And the whole circle of the heavens, for him A sensitive existence, and a God, With lifted hands invoked, and songs of praise...
Página 21 - When she upheld the cool refreshment drawn From that forsaken spring ; and no one came But he was welcome ; no one went away But that it seemed she loved him. She is dead, The light extinguished of her lonely hut, The hut itself abandoned to decay, And she forgotten in the quiet grave.