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Seven Sisters, The
Seven Sisters, The
Seven Daughter had Lord Archibald,
All children of one mother:
You could not say in one short day
What love they bore each other.
She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways
She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways
SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love: <…
Scorn Not the Sonnet
Scorn Not the Sonnet
Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned,
Mindless of its just honours; with this key
Shakspeare unlocked his heart; the melody
Ruth
Ruth
When Ruth was left half desolate,
Her Father took another Mate;
And Ruth, not seven years old,
A slighted child, at her own will
Went wanderin…
Resolution and Independence
Resolution and Independence
I
There was a roaring in the wind all night;
The rain came heavily and fell in floods;
But now the sun is rising calm and brig…
Rural Architecture
Rural Architecture
There's George Fisher, Charles Fleming, and Reginald Shore,
Three rosy-cheeked school-boys, the highest not more
Than the height of a counse…
Rainbow, The
Rainbow, The
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 gro…
Peter Bell, A Tale
Peter Bell, A Tale
PROLOGUE
There's something in a flying horse,
There's something in a huge balloon;
But through the clouds I'll never float
Until…
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
ONCE did she hold the gorgeous East in fee;
And was the safeguard of the West: the worth
Of Venice did not fall belo…
Old Cumberland Beggar, The
Old Cumberland Beggar, The
I saw an aged Beggar in my walk;
And he was seated, by the highway side,
On a low structure of rude masonry
Built at the foot …
Ode, On Intimations Of Immortality
Ode, On Intimations Of Immortality
I
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled i…
Ode, Composed On A May Morning
Ode, Composed On A May Morning
While from the purpling east departs
The star that led the dawn,
Blithe Flora from her couch upstarts,
For May is on the l…
Ode Composed On A May Morning
Ode Composed On A May Morning
WHILE from the purpling east departs
The star that led the dawn,
Blithe Flora from her couch upstarts,
For May is on the la…
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight
To m…
Nutting
Nutting
---------------------It seems a day
(I speak of one from many singled out)
One of those heavenly days that cannot die;
When, in the eagerness of …
Oak and The Broom, The: A Pastoral Poem
Oak and The Broom, The: A Pastoral Poem
I
His simple truths did Andrew glean
Beside the babbling rills;
A careful student he had been
Among the wood…
November,
November,
. Another year!--another deadly blow!
Another mighty Empire overthrown!
And We are left, or shall be left, alone;
The last that dare to strugg…
Mutability
Mutability
FROM low to high doth dissolution climb,
And sink from high to low, along a scale
Of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail;
A musical but …
Most Sweet it is
Most Sweet it is
. Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes
To pace the ground, if path be there or none,
While a fair region round the traveller lies
Which…
Memory
Memory
A pen--to register; a key--
That winds through secret wards
Are well assigned to Memory
By allegoric Bards.
As aptly, also, might be given <…
Lucy iv
Lucy iv
THREE years she grew in sun and shower;
Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower
On earth was never sown;
This child I to myself will take;
She…
Lucy ii
Lucy ii
SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:
A violet by a mo…
Lucy Gray
Lucy Gray
Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray:
And, when I crossed the wild,
I chanced to see at break of day
The solitary child.
No mate, no comrade Lucy…
Lines Written In Early Spring
Lines Written In Early Spring
I HEARD a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad tho…