Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1815 |
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... mind by a still- strengthening attachment . Wishing and hoping that this Work , with the embellishments it has received from your Pencil , may survive as a lasting memorial of a friendship , which I reckon the blessings of my life ...
... mind by a still- strengthening attachment . Wishing and hoping that this Work , with the embellishments it has received from your Pencil , may survive as a lasting memorial of a friendship , which I reckon the blessings of my life ...
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... mind of the Describer : whether the things depicted be actually present to the senses , or have a place only in the me- mory . This power , though indispensable to a . Poet , is one which he employs only in submis- sion to necessity ...
... mind of the Describer : whether the things depicted be actually present to the senses , or have a place only in the me- mory . This power , though indispensable to a . Poet , is one which he employs only in submis- sion to necessity ...
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... mind . ( The distinction between poetic and human sensibility has been marked in the character of the Poet delineated in the origi- nal preface , before - mentioned ) . 3rdly , Reflec- tion , -which makes the Poet acquainted with the ...
... mind . ( The distinction between poetic and human sensibility has been marked in the character of the Poet delineated in the origi- nal preface , before - mentioned ) . 3rdly , Reflec- tion , -which makes the Poet acquainted with the ...
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... mind predominant in the production of them ; or to the mould in which they are cast ; or , lastly , to the subjects to which they relate . From each of these considerations , the following Poems have been divided PREFACE . xiii.
... mind predominant in the production of them ; or to the mould in which they are cast ; or , lastly , to the subjects to which they relate . From each of these considerations , the following Poems have been divided PREFACE . xiii.
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... mind . Nevertheless , I should have preferred to scatter the contents of these volumes at random , if I had been persuaded that , by the plan adopted , any thing material would be taken from the na- tural effect of the pieces ...
... mind . Nevertheless , I should have preferred to scatter the contents of these volumes at random , if I had been persuaded that , by the plan adopted , any thing material would be taken from the na- tural effect of the pieces ...
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Page 310 - SHE was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt; to startle, and way-lay.
Page 313 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower ; Then Nature said : " A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This child I to myself will take ; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. " Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse ; and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power, To kindle or restrain.
Page 130 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page xxvi - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Page 44 - WISDOM and Spirit of the universe ! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul ; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things — With life and nature — purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both...
Page 23 - Seven in all," she said, And wondering looked at me. " And where are they ? I pray you tell/ She answered, " Seven are we; And two of us at Conway dwell, And two arc gone to sea; " Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother; And, in the churchyard cottage, I Dwell near them with my mother.
Page 24 - Then did the little maid reply, "Seven boys and girls are we; Two of us in the churchyard lie Beneath the churchyard tree.
Page 205 - The Shepherd, at such warning, of his flock Bethought him, and he to himself would say, "The winds are now devising work for me!" And, truly, at all times, the storm, that drives The traveller to a shelter, summoned him Up to the mountains: he had been alone Amid the heart of many thousand mists, That came to him, and left him, on the heights.
Page 24 - And when the ground was white with snow And I could run and slide. My brother John was forced to go. And he lies by her side.
Page 343 - The appropriate business of poetry, (which, nevertheless, if genuine, is as permanent as pure science,) her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear ; not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses and to the passions.