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The complete poetical works of William Wordsworth: together with a description of the country of the lakes in the north of England, now first published with his works ... / edited by Henry Reed.
Author
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
Date Added
8 January 2014
Language
English
Publish Date
1839
Publisher
Philadelphia: J. Kay, Jun. and brother; Boston: J. Munroe and Co.; [etc., etc.]
Source
Woodstock Theological Center Library, Georgetown University.
Topic
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. English poetry.
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EPITAPHS AND ELEGIAC POEMS. 335 | .
So changes mortal Life with fleeting years; Bat hushed be every thought that springs |
A mournful change, should Reason fail to bring From out the bitterness of things ; |
The timely insight that can temper fears, Her quiet is secure;
And from vicissitude remove its sting ; No thorns can pierce her tender feet,
While Faith aspires to seats in that Domain Whose life. was, like the violet, sweet,
Where joys are perfect, neither wax nor wane. As climbing jasmine, pure ;—
As snowdrop onan infant’s grave,
Or lily heaving with the wave
‘ That feeds it and defends ;
VIL. The mountain top, or breathed the mist
That from the vale ascends,
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ELEGIAC STANZAS.
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As Vesper, ere the star hath kissed .
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Thou takest not away, O Death! |
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To bind around the Christian's brows,
Whose glorious work is done,
1824, . Thou strik’st —and absence perisheth, 1
O ror a dirge! But why complain? Indifference is no more ; |
Ask rather a triumphal strain The future brightens on our sight;
When Fermor’s race is run; For on the past hath fallen a light :
A garland of immortal boughs That tempts us to adore. |
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We pay a high and holy debt; VII.
SS Masih vemaorany fearet INVOCATION TO 'THE EARTH. i
all stain this votive lay; . i
° Ill-worthy, Beaumont! were the grief FEBRUARY, 1816 7 |
| That flings itself on wild relief 1. | |
| When Saints have passed away. “Rest, rest, perturbed Earth! | 3
' “O rest, thou doleful Mother of Mankind!” / | mI
Sad doom, at Sorrow’s shrine to kneel, A Spirit sang in tones more plaintive than the wind; ' i
For ever covetous to feel, - “From regions where no evil thing has birth : i
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Such once was hers—to think and think Thy cherished fetters to unbind, | j
: “To open thy sad eyes upon a milder day, it
On severed love, and only sink “The H throneed with hat b 7
i From anguish to despair! e eavens are thronged with martyrs that have | |
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i “From out thy noisome prison ; : | \
i But ‘nature to its inmost part “The penal caverns groan i |
Had Faith refined, and to her heart “With tens of thousands rent from off the tree oid
A peaceful cradle given: “OF hopeful life, — by Battle’s whirlwind blown: Gt
Calm as the dew-drop’s, free to rest “Into the deserts of Eternity. :
¢ Within a breeze-fanned rose’s breast “Unpitied havoc! Victims unlamented! i 4 e
| Till it exhales to heaven, “But not on high, where madness is resented, | :
“And murder causes some sad tears to flow, ae
| Was ever Spirit that could bend “Though, from the widely-sweeping blow, Ps
So graciously ?— that could descend, “The choirs of Angels spread, triumphantly aug- | :
: Another’s need to suit, mented, J pe
: So promptly from her lofty throne? — 2. |e
4 In works of love, in these alone, “False Parent of Mankind! ; :
How restless, how minute! “ Obdurate, proud, and blind, qe ;
“T sprinkle thee with soft celestial dews, ie
Pale was her hue; yet mortal check “Thy lost maternal heart to re-infuse ! i -
Ne’er kindled with a livelier streak “Scattering this far-fetched moisture from my wings, e
When aught had suffered wrong, — “Upon the acta blessing I implore, . =
When aught that breathes had felt a wound; | “ Of which the rivers in their secret springs, “
Such look the Oppressor might confound, “The rivers stained so oft with human gore, .
. However proud and strong. “ Are conscious ; — may the like return no more! be
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