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Lost in the gloom of uninspired research.
Source: The Excursion
-- William...
Those obstinate questionings
Of sense and outward things,
Fallings from us, vanishings;
Blank misgivings of a...
The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink;
I heard a voice; it said `Drink, pretty creature,...
And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine;
A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A traveller...
The good old rule
Sufficeth them, the simple plan,
That they should take, who have the power,
And they should...
Thus was I reconverted to the world;
Society became my glittering bride,
And airy hopes my...
The silence that is in the starry sky,
The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Small circles glittering idly in the moon,
Until they melted all into one track
Of sparkling...
Two voices are there; one is of the sea,
One of the mountains; each a mighty voice:
In both from age to age thou...
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee; she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar,...
There was a boy: ye knew him well, ye cliffs
And islands of Winander!
Source:...
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!
A huge peak, black and huge,
As if with voluntary power instinct
Upreared its head.
For by superior energies; more strict
Affiance in each other; faith more firm
In their unhallowed principles,...
Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade
Of that which once was great is passed...
The brook and road
Were fellow-travellers in this gloomy strait.
Source: The...
Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart.
Source: Sonnets, 'Milton! thou...
I made no vows, but vows
Were then made for me; bond unknown to me
Was given, that I should be, else sinning...
The wiser mind
Mourns less for what age takes away
Than what it leaves behind.
I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimses...