The excursion, being a portion of The recluse, a poem |
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... Seemed infinite ; and there his spirit shaped Her prospects , nor did he believe , he saw . What wonder if his being thus became Sublime and comprehensive ! Low desires , Low thoughts had there no place ; yet was his heart Lowly ; for ...
... Seemed infinite ; and there his spirit shaped Her prospects , nor did he believe , he saw . What wonder if his being thus became Sublime and comprehensive ! Low desires , Low thoughts had there no place ; yet was his heart Lowly ; for ...
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... seemed to me Self - taught , as of a dreamer in the woods ; Who to the model of his own pure heart Shaped his belief , as grace divine inspired , And human reason dictated with awe . -And surely never did there live on earth A man of ...
... seemed to me Self - taught , as of a dreamer in the woods ; Who to the model of his own pure heart Shaped his belief , as grace divine inspired , And human reason dictated with awe . -And surely never did there live on earth A man of ...
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... seemed to feel One sadness , they and I. For them a bond Of brotherhood is broken : time has been When , every day , the touch of human hand Dislodged the natural sleep that binds them up In mortal stillness ; and they ministered To ...
... seemed to feel One sadness , they and I. For them a bond Of brotherhood is broken : time has been When , every day , the touch of human hand Dislodged the natural sleep that binds them up In mortal stillness ; and they ministered To ...
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... seemed she loved him . She is dead , The light extinguished of her lonely hut , The hut itself abandoned to decay , And she forgotten in the quiet grave . I speak , " continued he , " of One whose stock Of virtues bloomed beneath this ...
... seemed she loved him . She is dead , The light extinguished of her lonely hut , The hut itself abandoned to decay , And she forgotten in the quiet grave . I speak , " continued he , " of One whose stock Of virtues bloomed beneath this ...
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... Seemed present ; and , attention now relaxed , A heart - felt chillness crept along my veins . I rose ; and , having left the breezy shade , Stood drinking comfort from the warmer sun , That had not cheered me long - ere , looking round ...
... Seemed present ; and , attention now relaxed , A heart - felt chillness crept along my veins . I rose ; and , having left the breezy shade , Stood drinking comfort from the warmer sun , That had not cheered me long - ere , looking round ...
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age to age aught beauty behold beneath breath bright calm cheerful cloth clouds COLERIDGE'S cottage course dark death delight divine doth dwell earth EDWARD MOXON epitaph evermore exclaimed fair fair Isle faith fear feel fields flowers foolscap 8vo frame Friend grace grave green grove hand happy hath heart heaven hills holy honoured hope hour human immortality labour less living lofty lonely look mind moorland mortal mountain muse nature nature's o'er pains passed Pastor peace pensive pity pleasure POEMS praise pure rest rill rocks round S. T. Coleridge sate savage nations Scotland seat shade side sight silent smile smooth Solitary solitude sorrow soul spake spirit spot stood stream sublime tender things THOMAS CAMPBELL thoughts trees truth turf turned vale virtue voice volume walk Wanderer whence wild WILLIAM WORDSWORTH winds wish words youth
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Página 8 - I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation — and, by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures...
Página 101 - 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 122 - When winds are blowing strong. The traveller slaked His thirst from rill or gushing fount, and thanked The Naiad. Sunbeams upon distant hills Gliding apace with shadows in their train, Might with small help from fancy, be transformed Into fleet Oreads sporting visibly.
Página 131 - With the loud streams : and often, at the hour When issue forth the first pale stars, is heard, Within the circuit of this fabric huge, One voice — the solitary raven, flying Athwart the concave of the dark blue dome, Unseen, perchance above the power of sight— An iron knell ! with echoes from afar Faint — and still fainter...
Página 128 - 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 and serene.
Página 16 - Profuse in garniture of wooden cuts Strange and uncouth ; dire faces, figures dire, Sharp-kneed, sharp-elbowed, and lean-ankled too, With long and ghostly shanks — forms which once seen Could never be forgotten...
Página 61 - ... 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 in the mind of man Than the mute Agents stirring there : — alone Here do I sit and watch.
Página 8 - 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 — may these sounds Have their authentic comment ; that even these Hearing, I be not downcast or forlorn ! — Descend, prophetic Spirit!
Página 286 - Power, that proudly sits on others' crimes ; Charged with more crying sins than those he checks. The storms of sad confusion that may grow Up in the present for the coming times, Appal not him ; that hath no side at all, But of himself, and knows the worst can fall. Although his heart (so near allied to earth) Cannot but pity the perplexed state Of troublous and...
Página 65 - Stood fixed ; and fixed resemblances were seen To implements of ordinary use, But vast in size, in substance glorified ; Such as by Hebrew prophets were beheld In vision — forms uncouth of mightiest power, For admiration and mysterious awe.