The Excursion: A PoemE. Moxon, 1847 - 374 страници |
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... of steep rock , And softly creeping , like a breath of air , Such as is sometimes seen , and hardly seen , To brush the still breast of a crystal lake . “ Behold a cabinet for sages built , Which kings DESPONDENCY . 79.
... of steep rock , And softly creeping , like a breath of air , Such as is sometimes seen , and hardly seen , To brush the still breast of a crystal lake . “ Behold a cabinet for sages built , Which kings DESPONDENCY . 79.
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... 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 The place where now we stand ) ...
... 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 The place where now we stand ) ...
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... breath Take the live herbage from the mead , and strip ' The shady forest of its green attire , — ' And let the bursting clouds to fury rouse The gentle brooks ! -Your desolating sway , Sheds , ' I exclaimed , ' no sadness upon me ...
... breath Take the live herbage from the mead , and strip ' The shady forest of its green attire , — ' And let the bursting clouds to fury rouse The gentle brooks ! -Your desolating sway , Sheds , ' I exclaimed , ' no sadness upon me ...
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... breathing - time , vacation , or a truce , But for its absolute self ; a life of peace , Stability without regret or fear ; That hath been , is , and shall be evermore ! - Such the reward he sought ; and wore out life , There , where on ...
... breathing - time , vacation , or a truce , But for its absolute self ; a life of peace , Stability without regret or fear ; That hath been , is , and shall be evermore ! - Such the reward he sought ; and wore out life , There , where on ...
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... breath was silent , chanced to hear A distant strain , far sweeter than the sounds Which his poor skill could make , his fancy fetched , Even from the blazing chariot of the sun , A beardless Youth , who touched a golden lute , And ...
... breath was silent , chanced to hear A distant strain , far sweeter than the sounds Which his poor skill could make , his fancy fetched , Even from the blazing chariot of the sun , A beardless Youth , who touched a golden lute , And ...
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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 discourse doth dwell earth EDWARD MOXON epitaph evermore exclaimed fair fair Isle faith fear feel fields flowers frame Friend GEORGIANA FULLERTON grace grave green grove hand happy hath heard 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 PARACELSUS passed Pastor peace pensive PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE pity pleasure POEMS praise Price pure rest rocks round S. T. Coleridge sate seat shade side sight silent smile smooth Solitary solitude SORDELLO sorrow soul spake spirit stood stream sublime tender things thoughts trees truth turf turned vale virtue voice walk Wanderer whence wild WILLIAM WORDSWORTH winds wish words youth
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Страница xiii - 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 ; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish : — this is our high argument.
Страница 115 - One adequate support For the calamities of mortal life Exists — one only — an assured belief That the procession of our fate, howe'er Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence and power, Whose everlasting purposes embrace All accidents, converting them to good.
Страница 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...
Страница 70 - The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city — boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendor — without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted ; here, serene pavilions bright, In avenues disposed ; there, towers begirt With...
Страница 37 - My Friend ! enough to sorrow you have given, The purposes of wisdom ask no more ; Be wise and cheerful ; and no longer read The forms of things with an unworthy eye. She sleeps in the calm earth, and peace is here.
Страница xii - Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreams — can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man — My haunt, and the main region of my song.
Страница xvi - Where, on a small hereditary farm, An unproductive slip of rugged ground, His Parents, with their numerous offspring, dwelt ; A virtuous household, though exceeding poor...
Страница 205 - Whose steps are equity, whose seat is law. — Hail to the State of England ! And conjoin With this a salutation as devout, Made to the spiritual Fabric of her Church ; Founded in truth ; by blood of Martyrdom Cemented; by the hands of Wisdom reared In beauty of Holiness, with ordered pomp, Decent, and unreproved.
Страница 11 - All things, responsive to the writing, there Breathed immortality, revolving life, And greatness still revolving ; infinite : There littleness was not ; the least of things Seemed infinite ; and there his spirit shaped Her prospects, nor did he believe, — he saw.
Страница 133 - How divine, The liberty, for frail, for mortal, man To roam at large among unpeopled glens And mountainous retirements, only trod By devious footsteps ; regions consecrate To oldest time ! and, reckless of the storm That keeps the raven quiet in h*er nest, Be as a presence or a motion — one Among the many there...