After-Thought
I thought of Thee, my partner and my guide, As being past away
—Vain sympathies
For, backward,
Duddon
I thought of Thee, my partner and my guide, As being past away
—Vain sympathies
For, backward,
Duddon
Five years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters
and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a soft inland murmur
—Once again Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
That on a wi...
———The sky is overcast With a continuous cloud of texture close,
Heavy and wan, all whitened by the Moon,
Which through that veil is indistinctly seen,
A dull, contracted circle, yielding light So feebly spread, that not a shadow fa...
I
RD a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant
I
VE a boy of five years old;
His face is fair and fresh to see;
His limbs are cast in beauty's
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove,
Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love:
A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye
—-Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky...
There is a change—and I am poor;
Your love hath been, nor long ago,
A fountain at my fond heart's door,
Whose only business was to flow;
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass byA sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment,
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
I marvel how Nature could ever find space For so many strange contrasts in one human face:
There's thought and no thought, and there's paleness and bloom And bustle and sluggishness, pleasure and gloom
There's weakness, and strength both...
Lo
where the Moon along the
Sails with her happy destiny;
Oft is she hid from mortal
AT way does the wind come
What way does he go
He rides over the water, and over the snow,
Through wood, and through vale; and, o'er rocky
The God of Love—"ah, benedicite
"How mighty and how great a Lord is he
For he of low hearts can make high, of
He can make low, and unto death bring nigh;