The Excursion, Being a Portion of The Recluse, a PoemLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814 - 447 sider Wordsworth's longest poem, and the only part of a projected magnum opus to be published in his lifetime, The Excursion has been neglected in favor of its autobiographical companion, The Prelude. It is however one of the great works of English Romanticism, in which Wordsworth succeeds in his object of conveying clear thoughts, lively images, and strong feelings. Through the semi-dramatic adoption of various selves he narrates the stories of a range of Lake District inhabitants, most famously in the tragic tale of the ruined cottage; airs views on the French and Industrial Revolutions (attacking the factory system and advocating universal state education); and meditates on Man, Nature, and Society. . |
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Side 17
... And from the stillness of abstracted thought He asked repose ; and I have heard him say That often , failing at this time to gain The peace required , he scanned the laws of light D Amid the roar of torrents , where they send From 17.
... And from the stillness of abstracted thought He asked repose ; and I have heard him say That often , failing at this time to gain The peace required , he scanned the laws of light D Amid the roar of torrents , where they send From 17.
Side 44
... gain'd By spinning hemp a pittance for herself ; And for this end had hired a neighbour's Boy To give her needful help . That very time Most willingly she put her work aside , And walked with me along the miry road Heedless how far ...
... gain'd By spinning hemp a pittance for herself ; And for this end had hired a neighbour's Boy To give her needful help . That very time Most willingly she put her work aside , And walked with me along the miry road Heedless how far ...
Side 85
... touch Upon the vulgar ordinance of the world , And he , whom this our Cottage hath to - day Relinquished , was dependant for his bread Upon the laws of public charity . The Housewife , tempted by such slender gains As might 85.
... touch Upon the vulgar ordinance of the world , And he , whom this our Cottage hath to - day Relinquished , was dependant for his bread Upon the laws of public charity . The Housewife , tempted by such slender gains As might 85.
Side 86
William Wordsworth. The Housewife , tempted by such slender gains As might from that occasion be distilled , Opened , as she before had done for me , Her doors to admit this homeless Pensioner ; The portion gave of coarse but wholesome ...
William Wordsworth. The Housewife , tempted by such slender gains As might from that occasion be distilled , Opened , as she before had done for me , Her doors to admit this homeless Pensioner ; The portion gave of coarse but wholesome ...
Side 147
... gain . -Man is of dust : etherial Hopes are his , Which , when they should sustain themselves aloft , Want due consistence ; like a Pillar of smoke , That with majestic energy from earth Rises ; but , having reached the thinner air ...
... gain . -Man is of dust : etherial Hopes are his , Which , when they should sustain themselves aloft , Want due consistence ; like a Pillar of smoke , That with majestic energy from earth Rises ; but , having reached the thinner air ...
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age to age appeared aught beauty behold beneath blessed breath bright calm cheerful Child Church-yard cloud Cottage course dark Death delight doth dwell earth Epitaph evermore exclaimed fair fair Isle faith fancy fear feel fields firmament of heaven flowers frame Friend grace grave green grove hand happy hath heard heart heaven hills holy hope hour human humble labour less live lofty lonely look mind mortal mountain muse Nature Nature's o'er pains pass Pastor peace pensive pity pleasure praise pure rest Rill rocks round rouzed S. T. Coleridge sate savage Nations seat shade side sight silent silent pool smile smooth soft Solitary solitude sorrow soul spake speak spirit spot stood stream sublime sweet tender things thoughts tow'rds truth turn twas Vale Vicar virtue voice walk Wanderer wild WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wish words youth
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Side 180 - Sunbeams, upon distant hills Gliding apace, with shadows in their train, Might, with small help from fancy, be transformed Into fleet Oreads sporting visibly. The Zephyrs fanning, as they passed, their wings, Lacked not, for love, fair objects whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves and twigs by hoary age, From depth of shaggy covert peeping forth In the low vale, or on steep mountain side; And, sometimes, intermixed with stirring horns Of the live...
Side xi - All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah — with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones — I pass them unalarined.
Side xii - Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreams — can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man — My haunt, and the main region of my song.
Side 48 - So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shows of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could not live Where meditation was. I turned away, And walked along my road in happiness.
Side 290 - Him who is a righteous Judge, — Why do not these prevail for human life, To keep two hearts together, that began Their springtime with one love, and that have need Of mutual pity and forgiveness sweet To grant, or be received; while that poor bird — O, come and hear him ! Thou who hast to me Been faithless, hear him ; —though a lowly creature. One of God's simple children that yet know not The Universal Parent, how he sings! As if he wished the firmament of heaven Should listen, and give back...
Side xi - Of Truth, of Grandeur, Beauty, Love, and Hope, And melancholy Fear subdued by Faith ; Of blessed consolations in distress ; Of moral strength, and intellectual Power ; Of joy in widest commonalty spread...
Side 67 - So placed, to be shut out from all the world ! Urn-like it was in shape, deep as an urn ; With rocks encompassed, save that to the south Was one small opening, where a heath-clad ridge Supplied a boundary less abrupt and close ; A quiet treeless nook, with two green fields, A liquid pool that glittered in the sun, And one bare dwelling; one abode, no more!
Side 429 - Inheritance of desolation leaves To great.expecting Hopes : He looks thereon, As from the shore of Peace, with unwet eye, And bears no venture in Impiety.
Side 397 - Fixed, within reach of every human eye ; The sleepless ocean murmurs for all ears ; The vernal field infuses fresh delight Into all hearts. Throughout the world of sense, Even as an object is sublime or fair, That object is laid open to the view Without reserve or veil ; and as a power Is salutary, or an influence sweet, Are each and all enabled to perceive That power, that influence, by impartial law.
Side xiii - Such grateful haunts foregoing, if I oft Must turn elsewhere — to travel near the tribes And fellowships of men, and see ill sights Of madding passions mutually inflamed; Must hear Humanity in fields and groves Pipe solitary anguish; or must hang Brooding above the fierce confederate storm Of sorrow, barricadoed evermore Within the walls of cities...