Part i
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Maidens withering on the stalk.[477-1]
_Personal Talk. Stanza 1._
Sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet.[477-2]
_Personal Talk. Stanza 2._
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
_Personal Talk. Stanza 3._
The gentle Lady married to the Moor, And heavenly Una with her milk-white lamb.
_Personal Talk. Stanza 3._
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!-- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.
_Personal Talk. Stanza 4._
A power is passing from the earth.
_Lines on the expected Dissolution of Mr. Fox._
The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose.
_Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 2._
The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
_Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 2._
Where is it now, the glory and the dream?
_Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 5._
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory, do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy.
_Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 5._
At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
_Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 5._
The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction.
_Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 9._
Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings, Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised.
_Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 9._
Truths that wake, To perish never.
_Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 9._
Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.
_Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 9._
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.
_Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 10._
In years that bring the philosophic mind.
_Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 10._
The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.
_Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 11._
To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
_Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 11._
Two voices are there: one is of the sea, One of the mountains,--each a mighty voice.
_Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland._
Earth helped him with the cry of blood.[478-1]
_Song at the Feast of Broughton Castle._
The silence that is in the starry sky.
_Song at the Feast of Broughton Castle._
The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height.
_The White Doe of Rylstone. Canto iii._
"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?
_Force of Prayer._
A few strong instincts, and a few plain rules.
_Alas! what boots the long laborious Quest?_
Of blessed consolations in distress.
_Preface to the Excursion._ (Edition, 1814.)
The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.
_The Excursion. Book i ._
The imperfect offices of prayer and praise.
_The Excursion. Book i ._
That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton.
_The Excursion. Book i ._
The good die first,[479-1] And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket.
_The Excursion. Book i ._
This dull product of a scoffer's pen.
_The Excursion. Book ii ._
With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.
_The Excursion. Book ii ._
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.
_The Excursion. Book iii ._
Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
_The Excursion. Book iii ._
Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial.
_The Excursion. Book iii ._
The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way![480-1]
_The Excursion. Book iii ._
Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.
_The Excursion. Book iii ._
And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.
_The Excursion. Book iv ._
There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
_The Excursion. Book iv ._
Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.
_The Excursion. Book iv ._
Pan himself, The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring god!
_The Excursion.