The excursion, being a portion of The recluse, a poem |
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... Spirits hath composed From earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move , An hourly neighbour . Paradise , and groves Elysian , Fortunate Fields - like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main — why ...
... Spirits hath composed From earth's materials — waits upon my steps ; Pitches her tents before me as I move , An hourly neighbour . Paradise , and groves Elysian , Fortunate Fields - like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main — why ...
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... spirit drank The spectacle sensation , soul , and form , All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live , And by them did he live ; they were his life . In such access of mind , in such high hour 10 THE ...
... spirit drank The spectacle sensation , soul , and form , All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live , And by them did he live ; they were his life . In such access of mind , in such high hour 10 THE ...
Side 11
... 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 he was meek in gratitude , Oft ...
... 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 he was meek in gratitude , Oft ...
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... spirit of her forms , He clothed the nakedness of austere truth . While yet he lingered in the rudiments Of science , and among her simplest laws , His triangles they were the stars of heaven , The silent stars ! Oft did he take delight ...
... spirit of her forms , He clothed the nakedness of austere truth . While yet he lingered in the rudiments Of science , and among her simplest laws , His triangles they were the stars of heaven , The silent stars ! Oft did he take delight ...
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... Spirit , who constrains The Savoyard to quit his naked rocks , The free - born Swiss to leave his narrow vales , ( Spirit attached to regions mountainous Like their own steadfast clouds ) did now impel His restless mind to look abroad ...
... Spirit , who constrains The Savoyard to quit his naked rocks , The free - born Swiss to leave his narrow vales , ( Spirit attached to regions mountainous Like their own steadfast clouds ) did now impel His restless mind to look abroad ...
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The Excursion, Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem William Wordsworth Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1814 |
The excursion, being a portion of The recluse, a poem William Wordsworth Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1857 |
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age to age aught BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER beauty behold beneath breath bright calm cheerful cloth clouds cottage course dark death delight doth dwell earth EDWARD MOXON epitaph evermore exclaimed fair fair Isle faith fear feel fields flowers frame Friend grace grave green grove hand happy hath heart heaven hills holy honoured hope hour human immortality JUSTIN MARTYR labour less living lofty lonely look mind morocco mortal mountain nature nature's o'er passed Pastor peace pensive PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE pity POEMS praise Price pure rest rocks round S. T. Coleridge sate savage nations Scotland seat shade side sight silent smile smooth Solitary solitude SORDELLO sorrow soul spake spirit stars stood stream sublime tender things thoughts trees truth turf turned vale virtue voice volume 8vo walk Wanderer whence wild WILLIAM WORDSWORTH winds wish words youth
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Side 11 - The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!
Side 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...
Side 152 - Within the soul a faculty abides, That \vith interpositions, which would hide And darken, so can deal that they become Contingencies of pomp ; and serve to exalt Her native brightness. 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...
Side 127 - Happy is he who lives to understand Not human nature only, but explores All natures, to the end that he may find The law that governs each : and where begins The union, the partition where, that makes Kind and degree among all visible beings ; The constitutions, powers, and faculties...
Side xiii - 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...
Side 71 - With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars — illumination of all gems ! By earthly nature had the effect been wrought...
Side 18 - By loneliness, and goodness, and kind works, Whate'er, in docile childhood or in youth, He had imbibed of fear or darker thought Was melted all away; so true was this, That sometimes his religion 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.
Side 85 - Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop Than when we soar." — The Other, not displeased, Promptly replied — " My notion is the same. And I, without reluctance, could decline All act of inquisition whence we rise, And what, when breath hath ceased, we may become. Here are we, in a bright and breathing world. Our origin, what matters it ? In lack Of worthier explanation, say at once With the American (a thought which suits...
Side 139 - Presented sacrifice to moon and stars, And to the winds and mother elements, And the whole circle of the heavens, for him A sensitive existence, and a God, With lifted hands invoked, and songs of praise...
Side 21 - When she upheld the cool refreshment drawn From that forsaken spring ; and no one came But he was welcome ; no one went away But that it 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.