Select Poems of William Wordsworth: Edited, with NotesHarper & Brothers, 1889 - 258 páginas |
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... means of settling the question . For other matter taken from Knight due credit has been given , as to the other authorities I have cited . 44 The beautiful illustrations by Abbey , Parsons , and others , with the descriptive comments in ...
... means of settling the question . For other matter taken from Knight due credit has been given , as to the other authorities I have cited . 44 The beautiful illustrations by Abbey , Parsons , and others , with the descriptive comments in ...
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... means Wordsworth's best work . His best work is in his shorter pieces , and many , indeed , are there of these which are of first - rate excellence . But in his seven volumes the pieces of high merit are mingled with a mass SELECT POEMS ...
... means Wordsworth's best work . His best work is in his shorter pieces , and many , indeed , are there of these which are of first - rate excellence . But in his seven volumes the pieces of high merit are mingled with a mass SELECT POEMS ...
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... mean , by " treating in poetry moral ideas , " the composing moral and didactic poems- that brings us but a very little ... means the application of these ideas under the conditions . fixed for us by the laws of poetic beauty and poetic ...
... mean , by " treating in poetry moral ideas , " the composing moral and didactic poems- that brings us but a very little ... means the application of these ideas under the conditions . fixed for us by the laws of poetic beauty and poetic ...
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... means to praise in the English poets - this dealing with what is really life . But always it is the mark of the greatest poets that they deal with it ; and to say that the English poets are re- markable for dealing with it , is only ...
... means to praise in the English poets - this dealing with what is really life . But always it is the mark of the greatest poets that they deal with it ; and to say that the English poets are re- markable for dealing with it , is only ...
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... mean preacher : Come forth into the light of things , Let Nature be your teacher . She has a world of ready wealth , Our minds and hearts to bless- Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health , Truth breathed by cheerfulness . One impulse ...
... mean preacher : Come forth into the light of things , Let Nature be your teacher . She has a world of ready wealth , Our minds and hearts to bless- Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health , Truth breathed by cheerfulness . One impulse ...
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Página 59 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy. 'The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Página 112 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Página 188 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again...
Página 125 - Shaped by himself with newly-learned art; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral; And this hath now his heart, And unto this he frames his song: Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business...
Página 128 - Hence in a season of calm weather > Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Página 122 - THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream.
Página 90 - Which spurns the check of salutary bands, That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old: We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.
Página 124 - No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng, The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity, And with the heart of May Doth every Beast keep holiday; — Thou Child of Joy, Shout round me, let me hear thy shouts, thou happy Shepherd-boy!
Página 55 - For all sweet sounds and harmonies; oh! then, If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief, Should be thy portion, with what healing thoughts Of tender joy wilt thou remember me, And these my exhortations! Nor, perchance — If I should be where I no more can hear Thy voice...
Página 128 - We in thought will join your throng, Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye that through your hearts to-day Feel the gladness of the May ! What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind...