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Wild is the music of autumnal winds the faded woods. - [Autumn] Wisdom sits with children round her knees. - [Wisdom] Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs. - [Idleness] Ye swelling hills and spacious plains! Besprent from shore to shore with steeple towers, And spires whose "silent finger points to heaven." - [Spires] Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark. - A Morning Exercise [Music] But he is risen, a later star of dawn. - A Morning Exercise [Stars] Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance. - A Narrow Girdle of Rough Stones and Crags [Romance] How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom, bold. - A Poet! He hath put his Heart to School [Freedom] Impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude. - A Poet's Epitaph [Solitude] The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart. - A Poet's Epitaph (st. 13) [Eyes] One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave. - A Poet's Epitaph (st. 5) [Character] To the solid ground Of Nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye. - A Volant Tribe of Bards on Earth [Nature] Among the dwellings framed by birds In field or forest with nice care, Is none that with the little wren's In snugness may compare. - A Wren's Nest [Wrens] The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives. - A Wren's Nest [Primroses] The very flowers are sacred to the poor. - Admonition [Flowers] I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me; 'tis falsely said That even there was intercourse Between the living and the dead. - Affliction of Margaret [Apparitions] A few strong instincts and a few plain rules. - Alas! What Boots the Long Laborious Quest? [Instinct] He knows but from its shade the present hour. - An Evening Walk [Sun Dial Mottoes] Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. - Borderers, written 18 years before "Excursion" [Intellect : Words] Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew; And whom the curious painter doth pursue Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks, And tracks thee dancing down thy water-breaks. - Brook! Whose Society the Poet Seeks [Brooks] Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,--miserable train!-- Turns his necessity to glorious gain. - Character of a Happy Warrior [Necessity] But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover. - Character of a Happy Warrior (l. 48) [Character] And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw. - Character of a Happy Warrior (l. 53) [Law] Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray. - Character of a Happy Warrior (l. 72) [Character] Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives. - Character of the Happy Warrior [Influence] Displaying page 4 of 14 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
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