A Complaint (William Wordsworth Poems)
There is a change--and I am poor;Your love hath been, nor long ago,A fountain at my fond heart's door,Whose only ...
There is a change--and I am poor;Your love hath been, nor long ago,A fountain at my fond heart's door,Whose only ...
If in the spirit glows no spark divine;If soulless dust return to dust again;If, after life, but death and dark ...
Free from all foggs, but shining faire, and cleare,Wise in all good, and innocent in ill,Where holly friendship is esteemed ...
There is no change of time and place with Thee;Where'er I go, with me 'tis still the same;Within thy presence ...
I saw the spot where our first parents dwelt;And yet it wore to me no face of change,For while amid ...
Within two days, (if registers tell truth)I and the nineteenth century were born;Nor let me lightly such memorial scornOf ripen'd ...
BEHOLD! how weirdly, wonderfully grandThe shades and colors of yon sunset sky!Rare isles of light in crimson oceans lie,Whose airy ...
Now every leaf, though colorless, burns brightWith disembodied and celestial light,And drops without a movement or a soundA pillar of ...
He's out of work!I tell myself a change should mean a chance,And he must look for changes to advance,And he, ...
TASTE , Science, Genius, are ye ever fledFrom these lone halls, and with your votary dead?Must I in vain my ...
No pause! The buried pipes ring out,The flour-faced Antic runs from sight;Now Columbine, with scarlet pout,Floats in the smoking moon ...
Time only cause of my unrest,By whom I hop'd once to be blest,How cruell art thou turn'd?That first gau'st lyfe ...
Take the cloak from his face, and at firstLet the corpse do its worst!How he lies in his rights of ...
YES! hope may with my strong desire keep pace,And I be undeluded, unbetrayed:For if of our affections none find graceIn ...
NOT love, nor war, nor the tumultuous swellOf civil conflicts, nor the wrecks of change,And duty struggling with afflictions strange,Not ...
WHAT all despise, and all agree to curse,I view with pride and joy, an Empty Purse.When it was full, so ...
Sweet flower, thou art a link of memory,An emblem to the heart of bright days flown;And in thy silence too ...
RAIN, rain against the windows,- and the windWhistles its dreary eerie lullabyBetween the drowned earth and the sodden skyThat is ...
Thou art my morning, twilight, noon, and eve,My summer and my winter, spring and fall;For Nature left on thee a ...
Only a "something light as air," Which never words could tell,Yet feel you that between your lives A cloud has strangely fell;Though ...
ii GloriaPraise the wet snowfalling early.Praise the shadowmy neighor's chimney casts on the tile roofeven this gray October day that ...
Although a curtain of the salt sea-mistMay fall between the actor and our eyes -Although he change, for dear and ...
It is the precious province of true thought--Of the divine creations of the mind--To live unwearied in a heart overwroughtBy ...
HYACINTHS dormant in their peaty bed;For months no change, no progress to be seen;And then these small excrescences of green,Which ...
Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?They took my lover's tallness off to war,Left me lamenting. Now I cannot guessWhat I ...
If once you have slept on an islandYou'll never be quite the same;You may look as you looked the day ...
Light as flakes of falling snow Drop the silent-footed hours;And the days,— they come and go,And the years — we scarcely ...
Yesterday's steps you can't retrace, by slowing down or quickening pace,changing course, or turning back - You still will be ...
In moments to delight devoted, 'My life!' with tenderest tone you cry;Dear words! on which my heart had doted, If youth could ...
Let the ascetics sing of the garden of Paradise --We who dwell in the true ecstasy can forget their vase-tamed ...
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