The poetical works of William Wordsworth. New and complete annotated ed. Centenary ed, Issue 618, Volume 4 |
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... breath * ! XXIV . SAXON MONASTERIES , AND LIGHTS AND SHADES OF THE RELIGION . By such examples moved to unbought pains , The people work like congregated bees ; Eager to build the quiet Fortresses Where Piety , as they believe , obtains ...
... breath * ! XXIV . SAXON MONASTERIES , AND LIGHTS AND SHADES OF THE RELIGION . By such examples moved to unbought pains , The people work like congregated bees ; Eager to build the quiet Fortresses Where Piety , as they believe , obtains ...
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... breath departs in blissful aspiration : Then , ' mid the ghastly ruins of the fire , Behold the unalterable heart entire , Emblem of faith untouched , miraculous attestation ! * XXXVI . GENERAL VIEW OF THE TROUBLES OF THE REFORMATION ...
... breath departs in blissful aspiration : Then , ' mid the ghastly ruins of the fire , Behold the unalterable heart entire , Emblem of faith untouched , miraculous attestation ! * XXXVI . GENERAL VIEW OF THE TROUBLES OF THE REFORMATION ...
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... breath departs From one disburthened so , so comforted , His Spirit Angels greet ; and ours be hope That , if the Sufferer rise from his sick - bed , Hence he will gain a firmer mind , to cope With a bad world , and foil the Tempter's ...
... breath departs From one disburthened so , so comforted , His Spirit Angels greet ; and ours be hope That , if the Sufferer rise from his sick - bed , Hence he will gain a firmer mind , to cope With a bad world , and foil the Tempter's ...
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... breath To words the Church prescribes aiding the lip For the heart's sake , ere ship with hostile ship Encounters , armed for work of pain and death . Suppliants ! the God to whom your cause ye trust Will listen , and ye know that He is ...
... breath To words the Church prescribes aiding the lip For the heart's sake , ere ship with hostile ship Encounters , armed for work of pain and death . Suppliants ! the God to whom your cause ye trust Will listen , and ye know that He is ...
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... low Pile : And the fresh air of incense - breathing morn Shall wooingly embrace it ; and green moss Creep round its arms through centuries unborn . XLI . NEW CHURCH - YARD . THE encircling ground ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS . 85.
... low Pile : And the fresh air of incense - breathing morn Shall wooingly embrace it ; and green moss Creep round its arms through centuries unborn . XLI . NEW CHURCH - YARD . THE encircling ground ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS . 85.
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Page 198 - I HEARD a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did nature link The human soul that through me ran ; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.
Page 209 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Page 234 - CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR. WHO is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be ? — It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought...
Page 232 - Yet seek thy firm support, according to their need. I, loving freedom, and untried ; No sport of every random gust, Yet being to myself a guide, Too blindly have reposed my trust : And oft, when in my heart was heard Thy timely mandate, I deferred The task, in smoother walks to stray ; But thee I now would serve more strictly if I may.
Page 232 - Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth; Glad hearts, without reproach or blot, Who do thy work and know it not: Oh!
Page 96 - And what, for this frail world, were all That mortals do or suffer, Did no responsive harp, no pen, Memorial tribute offer ? Yea, what were mighty Nature's self ; Her features, could they win us, Unhelped by the poetic voice That hourly speaks within us...
Page 284 - So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive, Would that the little Flowers were born to live, Conscious of half the pleasure which they give ; That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone...
Page 196 - UP ! up ! my Friend, and quit your books ; Or surely you'll grow double : "Up ! up ! my Friend, and clear your looks ; Why all this toil and trouble...
Page 62 - THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.
Page 229 - There sometimes doth a leaping fish Send through the tarn a lonely cheer; The crags repeat the raven's croak, In symphony austere...