Poems of WordsworthMacmillan, 1882 - 331 páginas |
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... minds of all who profess to care for poetry , as he was between the years 1830 and 1840 , and at Cambridge . From the very first , no doubt , he had his believers and witnesses . But I have myself heard him declare that , for he knew ...
... minds of all who profess to care for poetry , as he was between the years 1830 and 1840 , and at Cambridge . From the very first , no doubt , he had his believers and witnesses . But I have myself heard him declare that , for he knew ...
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... mind , and one does not look beyond them ; but in a collection of short pieces the im- pression made by one piece requires to be continued and sustained by the piece following . In reading Wordsworth the impression made by one of his ...
... mind , and one does not look beyond them ; but in a collection of short pieces the im- pression made by one piece requires to be continued and sustained by the piece following . In reading Wordsworth the impression made by one of his ...
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... minds rest upon that great and inexhaustible word life , until we learn to enter into its meaning . A poetry of revolt against moral ideas is a poetry of revolt against life ; a poetry of in- difference towards moral ideas is a poetry ...
... minds rest upon that great and inexhaustible word life , until we learn to enter into its meaning . A poetry of revolt against moral ideas is a poetry of revolt against life ; a poetry of in- difference towards moral ideas is a poetry ...
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... by statute to secure , For all the children whom her soil maintains , The rudiments of letters , and inform The mind with moral and religious truth . ” Wordsworth calls Voltaire dull , and surely the production of XX PREFACE .
... by statute to secure , For all the children whom her soil maintains , The rudiments of letters , and inform The mind with moral and religious truth . ” Wordsworth calls Voltaire dull , and surely the production of XX PREFACE .
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... minds ? or , finally , is yon resplendent Vault ? Is nothing of that radiant pomp so good as we have here ? Or gives a thing but small delight that never can be dear ? The silver moon with all her vales , and hills of mightiest fame ...
... minds ? or , finally , is yon resplendent Vault ? Is nothing of that radiant pomp so good as we have here ? Or gives a thing but small delight that never can be dear ? The silver moon with all her vales , and hills of mightiest fame ...
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beauty behold beneath birds blessed breath bright cheerful Child clouds dark dead dear delight doth dream earth face fair faith Father fear feel fields flowers Friend give glad glory gone grave green grove hand happy hath head hear heard heart Heaven hills hope hour human kind land leave less light live look mind morning mortal mountain Nature never o'er once passed past peace pleasure poet poor praise rest rock round season seemed seen shade side sight silent sing sleep song sorrow soul sound spirit Spring stand stars Stream summer sweet tears thee things thou thought trees truth turned Vale voice wind wish woods Yarrow youth
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Página 224 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Página 206 - 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...
Página 202 - Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee; My heart is at your festival, My head hath its coronal, The fulness of your bliss, I feel — I feel it all.
Página 202 - As to the tabor's sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief: A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong...
Página 188 - It is the generous spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought : Whose high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright : Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn ; Abides by this resolve, and stops not there, But makes his moral being his prime care ; Who, doomed to go in company with pain, And fear, and bloodshed, miserable train ! Turns his necessity...
Página 3 - She had a rustic, woodlai.d 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 may you be? " " How many? Seven in all," she said, And wondering looked at me.
Página 216 - The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country ! — am I to be blamed ? But 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...
Página 200 - 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...
Página 200 - The task, in smoother walks to stray; But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control; But in the quietness of thought : Me this unchartered freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance-desires: My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.
Página 62 - Man, not all alive nor dead, Nor all asleep — in his extreme old age: His body was bent double, feet and head Coming together in life's pilgrimage; As if some dire constraint of pain, or rage Of sickness felt by him in times long past, A more than human weight upon his frame had cast.