The poetical works of William Wordsworth. New and complete annotated ed. Centenary ed, Issue 618, Volume 4 |
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... look up to heaven and crave redress From God's eternal justice . Pitiless Though men be , there are angels that can feel For wounds that death alone has power to heal , For penitent guilt , and innocent distress . And has a Champion ...
... look up to heaven and crave redress From God's eternal justice . Pitiless Though men be , there are angels that can feel For wounds that death alone has power to heal , For penitent guilt , and innocent distress . And has a Champion ...
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... wrapt too long , Assumes the accents of our native tongue ; And he who guides the plough , or wields the crook , With understanding spirit now may look Upon her records , 46 POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION . Reflections Translation of the Bible.
... wrapt too long , Assumes the accents of our native tongue ; And he who guides the plough , or wields the crook , With understanding spirit now may look Upon her records , 46 POEMS OF THE IMAGINATION . Reflections Translation of the Bible.
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William [poetical works] Wordsworth. With understanding spirit now may look Upon her records , listen to her song , And sift her laws - much wondering that the wrong , Which Faith has suffered , Heaven could calmly brook . Transcendent ...
William [poetical works] Wordsworth. With understanding spirit now may look Upon her records , listen to her song , And sift her laws - much wondering that the wrong , Which Faith has suffered , Heaven could calmly brook . Transcendent ...
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... looks always green ! Rejoicing did they cast upon the ground Their Gods of wood and stone ; and , at the sound Of counter - proclamation , now are seen , ( Proud triumph is it for a sullen Queen ! ) Lifting them up , the worship to ...
... looks always green ! Rejoicing did they cast upon the ground Their Gods of wood and stone ; and , at the sound Of counter - proclamation , now are seen , ( Proud triumph is it for a sullen Queen ! ) Lifting them up , the worship to ...
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... look round ) that Heaven's decrees are just : Which few can hold committed to a fight That shows , ev'n on its better side , the might Of proud Self - will , Rapacity , and Lust , ' Mid clouds enveloped of polemic dust , Which showers ...
... look round ) that Heaven's decrees are just : Which few can hold committed to a fight That shows , ev'n on its better side , the might Of proud Self - will , Rapacity , and Lust , ' Mid clouds enveloped of polemic dust , Which showers ...
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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...