The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: With a Memoir, Band 7Little, Brown and Company, 1865 |
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Alfoxden Alps Ambleside amid beauty beheld beneath better breath Buttermere called clouds Coleorton Coleridge composed cottage creature dear delight doth earth eyes faith fancy fear feeling felt flowers France Friend Goslar Grasmere grove happy hath Hawkshead heard heart heaven Helvellyn hills honor hope hour human Italy labor less light living Loch Etive look Lyrical Ballads mighty mind mountains nature Nature's night o'er objects once passed passion peace Peter Bell plain pleased pleasure poem Poet present Quantock Hill River Duddon rock round Rydal Mount scene Scotland seemed seen sense shape side sight silent Sir Walter Scott sister solitude sonnet sorrow soul sound speak spirit stanza stood storm stream sweet thee things thou thought told Town-End trees truth turned vale Vaucluse verses voice walks wandering wild wind Windermere words youth
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Seite 114 - To move along the edges of the hills Rising or setting, would he stand alone Beneath the trees or by the glimmering lake, And there, with fingers interwoven, both hands Pressed closely palm to palm, and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they might answer him...
Seite 343 - I trust is their destiny ?—to console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier; to teach the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and, therefore, to become more actively and securely virtuous...
Seite 146 - The invisible world, doth greatness make abode, There harbours, whether we be young or old; Our destiny, our being's heart and home, Is with infinitude, and only there; With hope it is, hope that can never die, Effort, and expectation, and desire, And something evermore about to be.
Seite 18 - J find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling toward the grave, Like a false steward who hath much received And renders nothing back.
Seite 181 - Children, Babes in arms. Oh, blank confusion ! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons,. Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity, by differences That have no law, no meaning, and no end — Oppression, under which even highest minds Must labour, whence the strongest are not free.
Seite 23 - T- *Wisdom and Spirit of the universe ! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, — With...
Seite 174 - While he forewarns, denounces, launches forth, Against all systems built on abstract rights, Keen ridicule ; the majesty proclaims Of Institutes and Laws, hallowed by time ; Declares the vital power of social ties Endeared by Custom ; and with high disdain, Exploding upstart Theory, insists Upon the allegiance to which men are born...
Seite 413 - A SIMPLE child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ? I met a little cottage girl : She was eight years old she said ; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland 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...
Seite 93 - Ah ! need I say, dear Friend ! that to the brim My heart was full; I made no vows, but vows Were then made for me ; bond unknown to me Was given, that I should be, else sinning greatly, A dedicated Spirit.
Seite 163 - The Swede, the Russian ; from the genial south, The Frenchman and the Spaniard ; from remote America, the Hunter-Indian ; Moors, Malays, Lascars, the Tartar, the Chinese, And Negro Ladies in white muslin gowns.