The Excursion: A PoemEdward Moxon, 1841 - 374 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα xiii
... 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 ruptures ; while my ...
... 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 ruptures ; while my ...
Σελίδα 13
... the conflict and the sounds That live in darkness . From his intellect And from the stillness of abstracted thought He asked repose ; and , failing oft to win The peace required , he scanned the laws of light THE WANDERER . 13.
... the conflict and the sounds That live in darkness . From his intellect And from the stillness of abstracted thought He asked repose ; and , failing oft to win The peace required , he scanned the laws of light THE WANDERER . 13.
Σελίδα 14
A Poem William Wordsworth. The peace required , he scanned the laws of light Amid the roar of torrents , where they send From hollow clefts up to the clearer air A cloud of mist , that smitten by the sun Varies its rainbow hues . But ...
A Poem William Wordsworth. The peace required , he scanned the laws of light Amid the roar of torrents , where they send From hollow clefts up to the clearer air A cloud of mist , that smitten by the sun Varies its rainbow hues . But ...
Σελίδα 16
... peace And liberty of nature ; there he kept In solitude and solitary thought His mind in a just equipoise of love . Serene it was , unclouded by the cares Of ordinary life ; unvexed , unwarped By partial bondage . In his steady course ...
... peace And liberty of nature ; there he kept In solitude and solitary thought His mind in a just equipoise of love . Serene it was , unclouded by the cares Of ordinary life ; unvexed , unwarped By partial bondage . In his steady course ...
Σελίδα 19
... peace Had settled , " " Tis , " said I , " a burning day : He rose , My lips are parched with thirst , but you , it seems , Have somewhere found relief . " He , at the word , Pointing towards a sweet - briar , bade me climb The fence ...
... peace Had settled , " " Tis , " said I , " a burning day : He rose , My lips are parched with thirst , but you , it seems , Have somewhere found relief . " He , at the word , Pointing towards a sweet - briar , bade me climb The fence ...
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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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Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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
Σελίδα 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.