The Excursion: A PoemEdward Moxon, 1841 - 374 páginas |
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... ; 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 — may these sounds Have PREFACE . xiii.
... ; 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 — may these sounds Have PREFACE . xiii.
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A Poem William Wordsworth. Within the walls of cities — may these sounds Have their authentic comment ; that even these Hearing , I be not downcast or forlorn ! Descend , prophetic Spirit ! that inspir'st The human Soul of universal ...
A Poem William Wordsworth. Within the walls of cities — may these sounds Have their authentic comment ; that even these Hearing , I be not downcast or forlorn ! Descend , prophetic Spirit ! that inspir'st The human Soul of universal ...
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... sounds , Feeding the soul , and eagerly imbibed As cool refreshing water , by the care Of the industrious husbandman , diffused Through a parched meadow - ground , in time of drought . Still deeper welcome found his pure discourse : How ...
... sounds , Feeding the soul , and eagerly imbibed As cool refreshing water , by the care Of the industrious husbandman , diffused Through a parched meadow - ground , in time of drought . Still deeper welcome found his pure discourse : How ...
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... sound Of minster clock ! From that bleak tenement He , many an evening , to his distant home In solitude returning , saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness ; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head , And THE WANDERER .
... sound Of minster clock ! From that bleak tenement He , many an evening , to his distant home In solitude returning , saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness ; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head , And THE WANDERER .
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... sound diffused , or by the breathing air , Or by the silent looks of happy things , Or flowing from the universal face Of earth and sky . But he had felt the power Of Nature , and already was prepared , By his intense conceptions , to ...
... sound diffused , or by the breathing air , Or by the silent looks of happy things , Or flowing from the universal face Of earth and sky . But he had felt the power Of Nature , and already was prepared , By his intense conceptions , to ...
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age to age aught BASIL HALL beauty behold beneath breath bright calm CHARLES LAMB cheerful clouds cottage course dark dead death delight doth DOVER STREET dwell earth EDWARD MOXON epitaph evermore exclaimed fair fair Isle faith fancy fear feel fields flowers frame Friend grace grave green grove hand happy hath heard heart heaven hills holy honoured hope hour human immortality labour LEIGH HUNT less living lofty lonely look MDCCCXLI mind mortal mountain muse nature nature's o'er pains passed Pastor peace pensive pity pleasure praise pure rest rocks round S. T. Coleridge sate savage nations seat shade side sight silent smile smooth Solitary solitude sorrow soul sound spake spirit spot stood stream sublime tender things thoughts trees truth turned vale virtue voice walk Wanderer whence wild WILLIAM WORDSWORTH winds wish words youth
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Página xiii - Beauty — a living Presence of the earth, Surpassing the most fair ideal Forms Which craft of delicate Spirits hath composed From earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbour.
Página xiii - I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external world Is fitted; and how exquisitely too Theme this but little heard of among men The external world is fitted to the mind...
Página 102 - Turned inward, to examine of what stuff Time's fetters are composed ; and life was put To inquisition long and profitless! By pain of heart now checked — and now impelled — The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way...
Página 21 - She was a woman of a steady mind, Tender and deep in her excess of love, Not speaking much, pleased rather with the joy. Of her own thoughts : by some especial care Her temper had been framed, as if to make A being, who, by adding love to peace, Might live on earth a life of happiness.
Página 236 - Him who is a righteous Judge, — Why do not these prevail for human life, To keep two hearts together, that began Their springtime with one love, and that have need Of mutual pity and forgiveness sweet To grant, or be received; while that poor bird — O, come and hear him ! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him ; —though a lowly creature. One of God's simple children that yet know not The Universal Parent, how he sings! As if he wished the firmament of heaven Should listen, and give back...
Página xiv - Brooding above the fierce confederate storm Of sorrow, barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities — may these sounds Have their authentic comment; that even these Hearing, I be not downcast or forlorn ! — Descend, prophetic Spirit ! that inspir'st The human Soul of universal earth, Dreaming on things to come; and dost possess A metropolitan temple in the hearts Of mighty Poets ; upon me bestow 840 A gift of genuine insight...
Página 126 - Knowing the heart of man is set to be The centre of this world, about the which Those revolutions of disturbances Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is Man...
Página 317 - tis not impossible to sit In awful sovereignty ; a place of power, A throne, that may be likened unto his, Who, in some placid day of summer, looks Down from a mountain-top, — say one of those High peaks, that bound the vale where now we are.
Página 102 - Confusion infinite of heaven and earth, Dazzling the soul. Meanwhile, prophetic harps In every grove were ringing, ' War shall cease ; ' Did ye not hear that conquest is abjured ? ' Bring garlands, bring forth choicest flowers, to deck
Página 242 - So, through the cloud of death, her Spirit passed Into that pure and unknown world of love Where injury cannot come : — and here is laid The mortal Body by her Infant's side.