Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Miscellaneous Sonnets. Part i. xxxiit. Maidens withering on the stalk.1 Personal Talk. Stanza 1. Sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet.2 Stanza 2. Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, The gentle Lady married to the Moor, And heavenly Una with her milk-white lamb. Stanza 3. Ibid. Stanza 4. Lines on the expected Dissolution of Mr. Fox. The rainbow comes and goes, Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 2. The sunshine is a glorious birth; That there hath passed away a glory from the earth. Where is it now, the glory and the dream? Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: And cometh from afar. But trailing clouds of glory, do we come Heaven lies about us in our infancy. 1 See Shakespeare, page 57. Ibid. Stanza 5. Stanza 5. 2 See Collins, page 390. At length the man perceives it die away, Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 5 The thought of our past years in me doth breed Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Stanza 9. Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised. Ibid. Truths that wake, To perish never. Ibid. Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Ibid. Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. In years that bring the philosophic mind. The clouds that gather round the setting sun To me the meanest flower that blows can give Stanza 10. Ibid. Stanza 11. Ibid. Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland. Earth helped him with the cry of blood.' Song at the Feast of Broughton Castle. The silence that is in the starry sky. Ibid 1 This line is from Sir John Beaumont's "Battle of Bosworth Field." The monumental pomp of age The White Doe of Rylstone. Canto iii. "What is good for a bootless bene?" Force of Prayer. A few strong instincts, and a few plain rules. Alas! what boots the long laborious Quest! Of blessed consolations in distress. Preface to the Excursion. (Edition, 1814.) The vision and the faculty divine; The Excursion. Bookt. The imperfect offices of prayer and praise. Ibid. With battlements that on their restless fronts Ibid. Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop 'Than when we soar. Book iii. 1 Heaven gives its favourites - early death. - BYRON: Childe Harold, canto iv. stanza 102. Also Don Juan, canto iv. stanza 12. Quem Di diligunt Adolescens moritur (He whom the gods favor dies in youth). PLAUTUS: Bacchides, act iv. sc. 7. Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. The Excursion. Book iii Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial. Ibid. The intellectual power, through words and things, Ibid. Society became my glittering bride, And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. There is a luxury in self-dispraise; Recognizes ever and anon Ibid. Book iv. Ibid. A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract So build we up the being that we are. Ibid. Ibid. LANDOR: Gebir, book v. One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition. The Excursion. Book iv. Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven." 1 Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, Of memory images and precious thoughts Wisdom married to immortal verse.2 A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. Book vi. Ibid. Book vii. Ibid. Ibid. Book ix. Ibid. Laodomia. 1 An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and stars. — -COLERIDGE: The Friend No. 14. 2 See Milton, page 249. 8 Another and the same. - DARWIN: The Botanic Garden. |