2 min read
Слушать(AI)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 he forbears again to look upon; Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene, The work of Fancy, or some happy tone Of meditation, slipping in between The beauty coming and the beauty gone. If Thought and Love desert us, from that day Let us break off all commerce with the Muse: With Thought and Love companions of our way, Whate'er the senses take or may refuse, The Mind's internal heaven shall shed her dews Of inspiration on the humblest lay.
Form: sonnet:
Composition Date:18331.
The last of the series "Composed or suggested during a Tour, in the Summer of 1833."
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic
Comments
You need to be signed in to write comments
Other author posts
Nuns Fret Not at Their Convents Narrow Room
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells; And students with their pensive citadels; Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom,
Michael A Pastoral Poem
If from the public way you turn your steps Up the tumultuous brook of Green-head Ghyll, You will suppose that with an upright path Your feet must struggle; in such bold ascent The pastoral mountains front you, face to face But, courage f...
There Was A Boy
There was a Boy; ye knew him well, ye cliffs And islands of Winander many a time, At evening, when the earliest stars To move along the edges of the hills,
Ode to Duty
Stern Daughter of the Voice of God O Duty if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe; From vain temptations dost set free; And calm'st...
