The Prelude; Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem

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D. Appleton, 200 Broadway, 1850 - 374 頁
 

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第 36 頁 - CAMBRIDGE. The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. Of College labors, of the Lecturer's room All studded round, as thick as chairs could stand, With loyal students faithful to their books, Half-and-half idlers, hardy recusants, And honest
第 331 頁 - This spiritual Love acts not nor can exist Without Imagination, which, in truth, Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And Reason in her most exalted mood. . . This faculty hath been the feeding source Of our long labor : we have traced the
第 v 頁 - Remained, no pleasant images of trees, Of sea or sky, no colors of green fields ; But huge and mighty forms, that do not live Like living men, moved slowly through the mind By day, and were a trouble to my dreams. — ( 2 ) Wisdom
第 109 頁 - From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets. Visionary power Attends the motions of the viewless winds, Embodied in the mystery of words : There, darkness makes abode, and all the host Of shadowy things work endless changes,—there, As in a mansion like their proper home, Even forms and substances
第 304 頁 - left behind ? So feeling comes in aid Of feeling, and diversity of strength Attends us, if but once we have been strong. Oh ! mystery of man, from what a depth Proceed thy honors. I am lost, but see In simple childhood something of the base On which thy greatness stands ; but this I feel, That from thyself it
第 179 頁 - confusion ! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity, by differences That have no law, no meaning, and no end— Oppression, under which even the highest minds Must
第 309 頁 - BOOK THIRTEENTH. IMAGINATION AND TASTE, HOW IMPAIRED AND RESTORED.—(CONCLUDED.) FROM Nature doth emotion come, and moods . Of calmness equally are Nature's gift: This is her glory ; these two attributes Are sister horns that constitute her strength. Hence Genius, born to thrive by interchange Of peace and excitation, finds in her His best and purest
第 108 頁 - Or less I might have seen, when first my mind With conscious pleasure opened to the charm Of words in tuneful order, found them sweet For their own sakes, a passion, and a power ; And phrases pleased me chosen for delight, For pomp, or love. Oft, in the public roads Yet unfrequented, while the morning
第 iii 頁 - More palpable, as best might suit her aim. One summer evening (led by her) I found A little boat tied to a willow tree Within a rocky cave, its usual home. Straight I unloosed her chain, and stepping in Pushed from the shore. It was an
第 22 頁 - For now a trouble came into my mind From unknown causes. I was left alone Seeking the visible world, nor knowing why. The props of my affections were removed, And yet the building stood, as if sustained By its own spirit! All that I beheld Was dear, and hence to finer influxes The

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