Century Readings for a Course in English Literature, Volume 2John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young, James Francis Augustine Pyre Century Company, 1915 - 1143 pages |
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... 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 105 Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build ...
... 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 105 Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build ...
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... soul as strong as a mountain river Pouring out praise to the almighty Giver , Joy and jollity be with us both ! 20 25 Alas ! my journey , rugged and uneven , Through prickly moors or dusty ways must wind ; But hearing thee , or others ...
... soul as strong as a mountain river Pouring out praise to the almighty Giver , Joy and jollity be with us both ! 20 25 Alas ! my journey , rugged and uneven , Through prickly moors or dusty ways must wind ; But hearing thee , or others ...
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... soul , Or strong compunction in me wrought , 35 I supplicate for thy control ; But in the quietness of thought : Me this unchartered freedom tires ; I feel the weight of chance - desires : My hopes no more must change their name , I ...
... soul , Or strong compunction in me wrought , 35 I supplicate for thy control ; But in the quietness of thought : Me this unchartered freedom tires ; I feel the weight of chance - desires : My hopes no more must change their name , I ...
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... soul to abate 21 Her feeling , rendered more compassionate ; Is placable- because occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self - knowledge , even more pure , 26 As tempted more ; more able to endure , As ...
... soul to abate 21 Her feeling , rendered more compassionate ; Is placable- because occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self - knowledge , even more pure , 26 As tempted more ; more able to endure , As ...
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... Soul that rises with us , our life's Star , Hath had elsewhere its setting , And cometh from afar : 60 Not in entire forgetfulness , And not in utter nakedness , But trailing clouds of glory do we From God , who is our home ; come 65 ...
... Soul that rises with us , our life's Star , Hath had elsewhere its setting , And cometh from afar : 60 Not in entire forgetfulness , And not in utter nakedness , But trailing clouds of glory do we From God , who is our home ; come 65 ...
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Page 527 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 648 - Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self ! Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream, Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades : Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music: — do I wake or sleep?
Page 565 - Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail : And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Page 625 - Ode to the West Wind O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill (Driving sweet buds like flocks...
Page 518 - These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard-tufts, Which at this season, with their unripe fruits, Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves 'Mid groves and copses. Once again I see These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines Of sportive wood run wild : these pastoral farms, Green to the very door: and wreaths of smoke Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!
Page 518 - Flying from something that he dreads than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all.— I cannot paint What then I was.
Page 928 - Requiem Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Page 558 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 565 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Page 530 - The Solitary Reaper. Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.