The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volumen5Little, Brown, 1854 |
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... causes of them , are the subject of the following stanzas . WHEN , in the antique age of bow and spear And feudal rapine clothed with iron mail , Came ministers of peace intent to rear The Mother Church in yon sequestered vale , - Then ...
... causes of them , are the subject of the following stanzas . WHEN , in the antique age of bow and spear And feudal rapine clothed with iron mail , Came ministers of peace intent to rear The Mother Church in yon sequestered vale , - Then ...
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... cause lay in the Theme itself . Flowers are there many that delight to strive With the sharp wind , and seem to court the shower , Yet are by nature careless of the sun Whether he shine on them or not ; and some , Where'er he moves ...
... cause lay in the Theme itself . Flowers are there many that delight to strive With the sharp wind , and seem to court the shower , Yet are by nature careless of the sun Whether he shine on them or not ; and some , Where'er he moves ...
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... cause why thou dost sing this hymn , Since that thy throat is cut , as it doth seem . ' XXIX . ' My throat is cut unto the bone , I trow , ' Said this young Child , and by the law of kind , I should have died , yea many hours ago ; find ...
... cause why thou dost sing this hymn , Since that thy throat is cut , as it doth seem . ' XXIX . ' My throat is cut unto the bone , I trow , ' Said this young Child , and by the law of kind , I should have died , yea many hours ago ; find ...
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... cause OSEE I cry ; take heed ! XXVIII . Ay , quoth the Cuckoo , that is a quaint law , That all must love or die ; but I withdraw , And take my leave of all such company , For my intent it neither is to die , Nor ever while I live ...
... cause OSEE I cry ; take heed ! XXVIII . Ay , quoth the Cuckoo , that is a quaint law , That all must love or die ; but I withdraw , And take my leave of all such company , For my intent it neither is to die , Nor ever while I live ...
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... cause canst find To speak of Love's true Servants in this mood ; For in this world no service is so good To every wight that gentle is of kind . XXXI . For thereof comes all goodness and all worth ; All gentiless and honor thence come ...
... cause canst find To speak of Love's true Servants in this mood ; For in this world no service is so good To every wight that gentle is of kind . XXXI . For thereof comes all goodness and all worth ; All gentiless and honor thence come ...
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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.