Sweet streamlet bason! at thy side Weary and faint within me cried My longing heart, In such pure deep How sweet it were to sit and sleep; To feel each passage from without Close up, above me and about,...
O, richly soiled and richly sunned, Exuberant, fervid, and fecund! Is this the fixed condition On which may Northern pilgrim come, To imbibe thine ether-air, and sum Thy store of old tradition?...
Here am I yet, another twelvemonth spent, One-third departed of the mortal span, Carrying on the child into the man, Nothing into reality. Sails rent, And rudder broken, reason impotent...
On the mountain, in the woodland, In the shaded secret dell, I have seen thee, I have met thee! In the soft ambrosial hours of night, In darkness silent sweet I beheld thee, I was with thee,...
I have seen higher holier things than these, And therefore must to these refuse my heart, Yet am I panting for a little ease; I'll take, and so depart.
Away, haunt thou me not, Thou vain Philosophy! Little hast thou bestead, Save to perplex the head, And leave the spirit dead. Unto thy broken cisterns wherefore go,...
Away, haunt thou me not, Thou vain Philosophy! Little hast thou bestead, Save to perplex the head, And leave the spirit dead. Unto thy broken cisterns wherefore go,...
When panting sighs the bosom fill, And hands by chance united thrill At once with one delicious pain The pulses and the nerves of twain; When eyes that erst could meet with ease,...
O happy mother! while the man wayworn Sleeps by his ass and dreams of daily bread, Wakeful and heedful for thy infant care, O happy mother! while thy husband sleeps, Art privileged, O blessed one, to see...
So I went wrong, Grievously wrong, but folly crushed itself, And vanity o'ertoppling fell, and time And healthy discipline and some neglect, Labour and solitary hours revived...