The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 5Little, Brown, 1854 |
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... prose . What feats would I work with my magical hand ! Book - learning and books should be banished the land : And , for hunger and thirst and such troublesome calls , Every ale - house should then have a feast on its walls . The ...
... prose . What feats would I work with my magical hand ! Book - learning and books should be banished the land : And , for hunger and thirst and such troublesome calls , Every ale - house should then have a feast on its walls . The ...
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... prose or rhyme Graven on the tomb , we struggle against Time , Alas , how feebly ! but our feelings rise And still we struggle when a good man dies . Such offering BEAUMONT dreaded and forbade , A spirit meek in self - abasement clad ...
... prose or rhyme Graven on the tomb , we struggle against Time , Alas , how feebly ! but our feelings rise And still we struggle when a good man dies . Such offering BEAUMONT dreaded and forbade , A spirit meek in self - abasement clad ...
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... prose . My purpose was to imitate , and , as far as is possible , to adopt the very language of men ; and assuredly such per- sonifications do not make any natural or regular part of that language . They are , indeed , a figure of ...
... prose . My purpose was to imitate , and , as far as is possible , to adopt the very language of men ; and assuredly such per- sonifications do not make any natural or regular part of that language . They are , indeed , a figure of ...
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... prose , there is a numerous class of critics , who , when they stumble upon these prosaisms , as they call them , imagine that they have made a notable discovery , and exult over the Poet as over a man ignorant of his own profession ...
... prose , there is a numerous class of critics , who , when they stumble upon these prosaisms , as they call them , imagine that they have made a notable discovery , and exult over the Poet as over a man ignorant of his own profession ...
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... prose , but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose when prose is well written . The truth of this assertion might be demonstrated by innumerable passages ...
... prose , but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose when prose is well written . The truth of this assertion might be demonstrated by innumerable passages ...
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Page 178 - The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose, The Moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare, Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair ; The sunshine is a glorious birth ; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Page 182 - O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive...
Page 180 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy, But He beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The Youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
Page 286 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noonday grove; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love. The...
Page 194 - Accordingly, such a language, arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings, is a more permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets...
Page 183 - Nor man nor boy Nor all that is at enmity with joy Can utterly abolish or destroy. Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 307 - Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me...
Page 289 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs ; they on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seem'd Far off the flying fiend.
Page 177 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 202 - ... but natural and human tears ; she can boast of no celestial ichor that distinguishes her vital juices from those of prose ; the same human blood circulates through the veins of them both.