The Excursion: A PoemMoxon, 1853 - 374 páginas |
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... breath of outward circumstance , Or from the Soul — an impulse to herself— I would give utterance in numerous verse . Of Truth , of Grandeur , Beauty , Love , and Hope , And melancholy Fear subdued by Faith ; Of blessed consolations in ...
... breath of outward circumstance , Or from the Soul — an impulse to herself— I would give utterance in numerous verse . Of Truth , of Grandeur , Beauty , Love , and Hope , And melancholy Fear subdued by Faith ; Of blessed consolations in ...
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... breathing in content The keen , the wholesome , air of poverty , And drinking from the well of homely life . -But , from past liberty , and tried restraints , He now was summoned to select the course Of humble industry that promised ...
... breathing in content The keen , the wholesome , air of poverty , And drinking from the well of homely life . -But , from past liberty , and tried restraints , He now was summoned to select the course Of humble industry that promised ...
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... breathing world , It could not be more quiet : peace is here Or nowhere ; days unruffled by the gale Of public news or private ; years that pass Forgetfully ; uncalled upon to pay The common penalties of mortal life , Sickness , or ...
... breathing world , It could not be more quiet : peace is here Or nowhere ; days unruffled by the gale Of public news or private ; years that pass Forgetfully ; uncalled upon to pay The common penalties of mortal life , Sickness , or ...
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... breathing peaceably , Snug as a child that hides itself in sport ' Mid a green hay - cock in a sunny field . We spake — he made reply , but would not stir At our entreaty ; less from want of power Than apprehension and bewildering ...
... breathing peaceably , Snug as a child that hides itself in sport ' Mid a green hay - cock in a sunny field . We spake — he made reply , but would not stir At our entreaty ; less from want of power Than apprehension and bewildering ...
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... of steep rock , And softly creeping , like a breath of air , Such as is sometimes seen , and hardly seen , To brush the still breast of a crystal lake . “ Behold a cabinet for sages built , Which kings DESPONDENCY . 79.
... of steep rock , And softly creeping , like a breath of air , Such as is sometimes seen , and hardly seen , To brush the still breast of a crystal lake . “ Behold a cabinet for sages built , Which kings DESPONDENCY . 79.
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Términos y frases comunes
age to age baptismal font beauty behold beneath breath bright calm cheerful clouds cottage course dark dead death delight discourse doth dwell earth EDWARD MOXON epitaph evermore exclaimed fair fair Isle faith fancy fear feel fields firmament of heaven flowers frame Friend grace grave green grove hand happy hath heard heart heaven hills holy honoured hope hour human immortality labour less light living lofty lonely look mind moorland mortal mountain muse nature nature's o'er pains passed Pastor peace pensive pity pleasure praise pure rest rill rocks round S. T. Coleridge sate savage nations seat shade side sight silent smile smooth soft Solitary solitude sorrow soul spake spirit spot stood stream sublime tender things thoughts trees truth turf turned vale Vicar virtue voice walk Wanderer whence wild WILLIAM WORDSWORTH winds wish words youth
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Página xi - Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields— like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main— why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day.
Página 11 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not; in enjoyment it expired.
Página 325 - O for the coming of that glorious time When, prizing knowledge as her noblest wealth And best protection, this Imperial Realm, While she exacts allegiance, shall admit An obligation, on her part, to teach Them who are born to serve her and obey ; Binding herself 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...
Página 118 - But, by the storms of circumstance unshaken, And subject neither to eclipse nor wane, Duty exists ; immutably survive, For our support, the measures and the forms, Which an abstract intelligence supplies ; Whose kingdom is, where time and space are not.
Página 66 - ... voice; — the clouds, The mist, the shadows, light of golden suns, Motions of moonlight, all come thither — touch, And have an answer — thither come, and shape A language not unwelcome to sick hearts And idle spirits : — there the sun himself, At the calm close of summer's longest day, Rests his substantial Orb ; — between those heights And on the top of either pinnacle, More keenly than elsewhere in night's blue vault, Sparkle the Stars, as of their station proud. Thoughts are not busier...
Página 372 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Página xi - Such grateful haunts foregoing, if I oft Must turn elsewhere — to travel near the tribes And fellowships of men, and see ill sights Of madding passions mutually inflamed ; Must hear Humanity in fields and groves Pipe solitary anguish ; or must hang Brooding above the fierce confederate storm Of sorrow, barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities...
Página 152 - Within the soul a faculty abides, That with interpositions, which would hide And darken, so can deal that they become Contingencies of pomp ; and serve to exalt Her native brightness. As the ample moon, In the deep stillness of a summer even Rising behind a thick and lofty grove, Burns, like an unconsuming fire of light, In the green trees ; and, kindling on all sides Their leafy umbrage, turns the dusky veil Into a substance glorious as her own, Yea, with her own incorporated, by power Capacious...
Página 120 - Tis, by comparison, an easy task Earth to despise ; but, to converse with heaven — This is not easy :— to relinquish all We have, or hope, of happiness and joy, And stand in freedom loosened from this world, I deem not arduous ; but must needs confess That 'tis a thing impossible to frame Conceptions equal to the soul's desires ; And the mest difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.
Página 127 - Happy is he who lives to understand Not human nature only, but explores All natures, to the end that he may find The law that governs each : and where begins The union, the partition where, that makes Kind and degree among all visible beings ; The constitutions, powers, and faculties...