The Excursion: A PoemEdward Moxon, 1841 - 374 páginas |
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... wild varieties of joy and grief . Unoccupied by sorrow of its own , His heart lay open ; and , by nature tuned And constant disposition of his thoughts To sympathy with man , he was alive To all that was enjoyed where'er he went , And ...
... wild varieties of joy and grief . Unoccupied by sorrow of its own , His heart lay open ; and , by nature tuned And constant disposition of his thoughts To sympathy with man , he was alive To all that was enjoyed where'er he went , And ...
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... wild paths ; and , by the summer's warmth Invited , often would he leave his home And journey far , revisiting the scenes That to his memory were most endeared . -Vigorous in health , of hopeful spirits , undamped By worldly ...
... wild paths ; and , by the summer's warmth Invited , often would he leave his home And journey far , revisiting the scenes That to his memory were most endeared . -Vigorous in health , of hopeful spirits , undamped By worldly ...
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... wild , its matted weeds Marked with the steps of those , whom , as they passed , The gooseberry trees that shot in long lank slips , Or currants , hanging from their leafless stems , In scanty strings , had tempted to o'erleap The ...
... wild , its matted weeds Marked with the steps of those , whom , as they passed , The gooseberry trees that shot in long lank slips , Or currants , hanging from their leafless stems , In scanty strings , had tempted to o'erleap The ...
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... wilds , and gained , By spinning hemp , a pittance for herself ; And for this end had hired a neighbour's boy To give her needful help . That very time Most willingly she put her work aside , And walked with me along the miry road ...
... wilds , and gained , By spinning hemp , a pittance for herself ; And for this end had hired a neighbour's boy To give her needful help . That very time Most willingly she put her work aside , And walked with me along the miry road ...
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... wilds of Scotland , in a tract Where many a sheltered and well - tended plant , Bears , on the humblest ground of social life , Blossoms of piety and innocence . Such grateful promises his youth displayed : And , having shown in study ...
... wilds of Scotland , in a tract Where many a sheltered and well - tended plant , Bears , on the humblest ground of social life , Blossoms of piety and innocence . Such grateful promises his youth displayed : And , having shown in study ...
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Términos y frases comunes
age to age aught BASIL HALL beauty behold beneath breath bright calm CHARLES LAMB cheerful clouds cottage course dark dead death delight doth DOVER STREET dwell earth EDWARD MOXON epitaph evermore exclaimed fair fair Isle faith fancy fear feel fields flowers frame Friend grace grave green grove hand happy hath heard heart heaven hills holy honoured hope hour human immortality labour LEIGH HUNT less living lofty lonely look MDCCCXLI mind mortal mountain muse nature nature's o'er pains passed Pastor peace pensive pity pleasure praise pure rest rocks round S. T. Coleridge sate savage nations seat shade side sight silent smile smooth Solitary solitude sorrow soul sound spake spirit spot stood stream sublime tender things thoughts trees truth turned vale virtue voice walk Wanderer whence wild WILLIAM WORDSWORTH winds wish words youth
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Página xiii - Beauty — a living Presence of the earth, Surpassing the most fair ideal Forms Which craft of delicate Spirits hath composed From earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbour.
Página xiii - I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures; while my voice proclaims 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...
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 21 - She was a woman of a steady mind, Tender and deep in her excess of love, Not speaking much, pleased rather with the joy. Of her own thoughts : by some especial care Her temper had been framed, as if to make A being, who, by adding love to peace, Might live on earth a life of happiness.
Página 236 - Him who is a righteous Judge, — Why do not these prevail for human life, To keep two hearts together, that began Their springtime with one love, and that have need Of mutual pity and forgiveness sweet To grant, or be received; while that poor bird — O, come and hear him ! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him ; —though a lowly creature. One of God's simple children that yet know not The Universal Parent, how he sings! As if he wished the firmament of heaven Should listen, and give back...
Página xiv - Brooding above the fierce confederate storm Of sorrow, barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities — may these sounds Have their authentic comment; that even these Hearing, I be not downcast or forlorn ! — Descend, prophetic Spirit ! that inspir'st The human Soul of universal earth, Dreaming on things to come; and dost possess A metropolitan temple in the hearts Of mighty Poets ; upon me bestow 840 A gift of genuine insight...
Página 126 - Knowing the heart of man is set to be The centre of this world, about the which Those revolutions of disturbances Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is Man...
Página 317 - tis not impossible to sit In awful sovereignty ; a place of power, A throne, that may be likened unto his, Who, in some placid day of summer, looks Down from a mountain-top, — say one of those High peaks, that bound the vale where now we are.
Página 102 - Confusion infinite of heaven and earth, Dazzling the soul. Meanwhile, prophetic harps In every grove were ringing, ' War shall cease ; ' Did ye not hear that conquest is abjured ? ' Bring garlands, bring forth choicest flowers, to deck
Página 242 - So, through the cloud of death, her Spirit passed Into that pure and unknown world of love Where injury cannot come : — and here is laid The mortal Body by her Infant's side.