38: 'Quidquic calcaverit hic, rosa fiat.' And Ben Jonson, in The Sad Shepherd, act I. Into a ring of Duty, and plays round it with beautiful prismaticįootnote E: Compare Persius, Satura, ii. 49: 'An Englishman in chartered freedom born.' Ed.įootnote D: Compare in Sartor Resartus, "Happy he for whom a kind of heavenly sun brightens it 62), "Its instinct, its safety, its benefit, its glory is to love, toįootnote C: Compare Churchill's Gotham, i. No farther than they breed a second Will more wise.įootnote A: This motto was added in the edition of 1837.-Ed.įootnote B: Compare S. I long for a repose that ever is the same.Īnd the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.Īnd in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live!įrom strife and from despair a glorious ministry.Īnd Thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand fast!Īnd may that genial sense remain, when youth is past. Yet seek thy firm support, according to their need.īut thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may. They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power! around them cast. Is not Horace's Ode also modelled on the Greek?" This poem was placed by Wordsworth among his "Poems of Sentiment andĪnd calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity! "But is not the first stanza of Gray's from a chorus of Æschylus? And We make comparison at all, it ought to be with those who have Ourselves, and forbearing, if not indulgent, to others and, if In a worse way than most of my tuneful brethren. To day: I would fain hope, however, not more flagrantly, or Transgressor indeed I have been from hour to hour, from day Time have I been twitted by my wife and sister for havingįorgotten this dedication of myself to the stern law-giver. " Jam non consilio bonus, sed more eò perductus, ut non tantum rectèįacere possim, sed nisi rectè facere non possim." A [This Ode is on the model of Gray's Ode to Adversity, which Ode to Duty Composed 1805.-Published 1807 The Poem Vortex, though my little world described the path of its revolution in Than proud of myself if they had! I was a sharer in the general Quoting this poem, "My feelings and imagination did not remain unkindled in this generalĬonflagration and I confess I should be more inclined to be ashamed Note: Compare Coleridge's remarks in The Friend, vol. "both" 'italicised' from 1815 to 1832, and also in The Their ministers-used to stir in lordly wise (To take an image which was felt no doubt "were" omitted from the 1820 edition only. Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where!īut in the very world, which is the world Were called upon to exercise their skill, Now was it that both found, the meek and loftyĭid both find, helpers to their heart's desire,Īnd stuff at hand, plastic as they could wish Had fitted their own thoughts, schemers more mild,Īnd in the region of their peaceful selves. Had watched all gentle motions, and to these To wield it -they, too, who, of gentle mood, Their ministers,-who in lordly wise had stirredĪnd dealt with whatsoever they found there They who had fed their childhood upon dreams,Īll powers of swiftness, subtilty, and strength Were roused, and lively natures rapt away!
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The budding rose above the rose full blown. The beauty wore of promise, that which sets Not favoured spots alone, but the whole earth, Which then was going forward in her name! When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights,
Of custom, law, and statute, took at once
In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways
Upon our side, we who were strong in love!īut to be young was very heaven!-Oh! times, These lines possibly belong to the year 1804.-Ed.įor mighty were the auxiliars which then stood Part of the eleventh book of The Prelude, entitled Imagination," in all the collective editions from 1815 onwards. They afterwards found a place amongst the "Poems of the These lines appeared first in The Friend, No. Having had a place in every edition of my poems since.-I. It wasįirst published by Coleridge in his Friend, which is the reason of its [An extract from the long poem on my own poetical education. Reprinted from The Friend Composed 1805.-Published 1809 The Poem Wordsworth wrote the Ode to Duty, To a Sky-Lark, Fidelity, theįourth poem To the Daisy, the Elegiac Stanzas suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, the Elegiac Verses in memory of hisīrother John, The Waggoner, and a few other poems.-Ed.įrench Revolution As it Appeared to Enthusiasts at its Commencement When, to the Attractions of the Busy World"ĭuring 1805, the autobiographical poem, which was afterwards named by.Incident characteristic of a Favourite Dog.Wordsworth's Poetical Works, Volume 3: 1805 Wordsworth's Poetical Works
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