 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...dies. Milton. Milton ! thou should'st be living at this hour ; England hath need of thee ; she is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altar, sword, and pen, Fireside,...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...LONDON, 1802. Milton ! thou should'st be living at this hour.: England hatb need of tbee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword and pen, Fireside,...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...LONDON, MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour ; .England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword and pen, Fireside,...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword and pen, Fireside,...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return, to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was... | |
 | England - 1829 - 1008 pages
...is also true, that the common people of England are neither prosperous nor happy. " England is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside...dower Of inward happiness — We are selfish men." Simplicity, and goodness, and comfort, are ebbing away from our shores — on the one hand we find... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 362 pages
...LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword and pen, Fireside,...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 482 pages
...LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside,...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...London, 1802 MILTON ! thou should' st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside,...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside,...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Ob ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwell apart : WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS. Thou 1ml- 1 a Yoice whose sound was like the sea : Pure... | |
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Milton ! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish... 
