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The child is father of the man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural...
Blessed barrier between day and day.
Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets, I. 14, `To...
A perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command.
Source: She...
Me this unchartered freedom tires;
I feel the weight of chance-desires:
My hopes no more must change their...
A power is passing from the earth
To breathless Nature's dark abyss;
But when the great and good depart,
What...
And O, ye fountains, meadows, hills and groves,
Forebode not any severing of our loves!
Yet in my heart of...
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem...
She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight;
A lovely apparition, sent
To be a moment's...
Behold the child among his new-born blisses,
A six-years' darling of a pigmy size!
Mighty poets in their misery dead.
Source: Resolution and Independence, 17
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Hence in a season of calm weather
Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which...
O Nightingale, thou surely art
A creature of a 'fiery heart'.
Source: O...
Stepping westward seemed to be
A kind of heavenly destiny.
Source: Stepping...
Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own:
Yearnings she hath in her own natural...
Fears and fancies thick upon me came.
Source: Resolution and Independence, 4
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Provoke
The years to bring the inevitable yoke.
Source: Ode. Intimations of...
Give unto me, made lowly wise,
The spirit of self-sacrifice.
Source: Ode to...
Strange fits of passion have I known:
And I will dare to tell,
But in the lover's ear alone,
What once to me...
The clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye
That hath kept watch o'er...
By our own spirits are we deified:
We poets in our youth begin in gladness;
But thereof come in the end...