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Selections From the Poems of William Wordsworth
Selections From the Poems of William Wordsworth Author:Alexander Hamilton Thompson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1921 Original Publisher: [Cambridge] University Press Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black an... more »d white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: REMEMBRANCE OF COLLINS, Composed Upon The Thames Near Richmond. Glide gently, thus for ever glide, O Thames! that other bards may see As lovely visions by thy side As now, fair river! come to me. O glide, fair stream! for ever so, 5 Thy quiet soul on all bestowing, Till all our minds for ever flow As thy deep waters now are flowing. Vain thought! -- Yet be as now thou art, That in thy waters may be seen 10 The image of a poet's heart, How bright, how solemn, how serene! Such as did once the Poet bless, Who, murmuring here a later ditty, Could find no refuge from distress 15 But in the milder grief of pity. Now let us, as we float along, For him suspend the dashing oar; And pray that never child of song May know that Poet's sorrows more. 20 T. w. i How calm! how still! the only sound, The dripping of the oar suspended! -- The evening darkness gathers round By virtue's holiest Powers attended. EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY. 'Why, William, on that old grey stone, Thus for the length of half a day, Why, William, sit you thus alone, And dream your time away? 'Where are your books? -- that light bequeathed 5 To Beings else forlorn and blind! Up! up! and drink the spirit breathed From dead men to their kind. 'You look round on your Mother Earth, As if she for no purpose bore you; 10 As if you were her first-born birth, And none h...« less