The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volumen5Little, Brown, 1854 |
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... bird That in wild Arden's brakes was ever heard , Her work and her work's partners she can cheer , The whole day long , and all days of the year . Thus gladdened , from our own dear Vale we pass , And soon approach Diana's Looking ...
... bird That in wild Arden's brakes was ever heard , Her work and her work's partners she can cheer , The whole day long , and all days of the year . Thus gladdened , from our own dear Vale we pass , And soon approach Diana's Looking ...
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... bird ( I venture now To snatch a sprig from Chaucer's reverend brow ) - Is there a brilliant fondling of the cage , Though sure of plaudits on his costly stage , Though fed with dainties from the snow - white hand Of a kind mistress ...
... bird ( I venture now To snatch a sprig from Chaucer's reverend brow ) - Is there a brilliant fondling of the cage , Though sure of plaudits on his costly stage , Though fed with dainties from the snow - white hand Of a kind mistress ...
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... Bird , this boon confer : Come , and my requiem sing , Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting Spring . VII . I KNOW an aged Man constrained to dwell In a large house of public charity , S. H. Where he abides , as in a Prisoner's ...
... Bird , this boon confer : Come , and my requiem sing , Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting Spring . VII . I KNOW an aged Man constrained to dwell In a large house of public charity , S. H. Where he abides , as in a Prisoner's ...
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... Bird , and still must love ; That friendship lasts though fellowship is broken ! 1846 . } VIII . SONNET . ( TO AN OCTOGENARIAN . ) AFFECTIONS lose their object ; Time brings forth No successors ; and , lodged in memory , If love exist ...
... Bird , and still must love ; That friendship lasts though fellowship is broken ! 1846 . } VIII . SONNET . ( TO AN OCTOGENARIAN . ) AFFECTIONS lose their object ; Time brings forth No successors ; and , lodged in memory , If love exist ...
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... birds their pastime take . Food , shelter , safety , there they find ; There berries ripen , flowerets bloom ; There insects live their lives , and die : A peopled world it is ; in size a tiny room . And thus through many seasons ...
... birds their pastime take . Food , shelter , safety , there they find ; There berries ripen , flowerets bloom ; There insects live their lives , and die : A peopled world it is ; in size a tiny room . And thus through many seasons ...
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Página 178 - 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 passed away a glory from the earth.
Página 182 - Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife ? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life...
Página 181 - Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity ; Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind, That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep, Haunted for ever by the eternal mind, — Mighty Prophet ! Seer blest ! On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find...
Página 180 - 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 192 - Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life and to relate or describe them throughout as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men and at the same time to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect...
Página 210 - Poet will sleep then no more than at present ; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself.
Página 236 - The appropriate business of poetry (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent as pure science), her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear; not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions.
Página 192 - ... a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way ; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature : chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.
Página 194 - Accordingly, such a language, arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings, is a more permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets...
Página 189 - I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart.