Poetry Catalog

In days of yore how fortunately faredThe Minstrel! wandering on from hall to hall,Baronial court or royal; cheered with giftsMunificent, and love, and ladies' praise;Now meeting on his road an armed knight,Now resting with a pilgrim by the sideOf a clear brook;--beneath an abbey's roofOne evening sumptuously lodged; the next,Humbly in a religious hospital;Or with some merry … [Read more...] about The Excursion – Book Second – The Solitary, By: William Wordsworth

"To every Form of being is assigned,"Thus calmly spake the venerable Sage,"An active Principle:--howe'er removedFrom sense and observation, it subsistsIn all things, in all natures; in the starsOf azure heaven, the unenduring clouds,In flower and tree, in every pebbly stoneThat paves the brooks, the stationary rocks,The moving waters, and the invisible air.Whate'er exists hath … [Read more...] about The Excursion – Book Ninth – Discourse Of The Wanderer, And An Evening Visit To The Lake, By: William Wordsworth

Here closed the Tenant of that lonely valeHis mournful narrative--commenced in pain,In pain commenced, and ended without peace:Yet tempered, not unfrequently, with strainsOf native feeling, grateful to our minds;And yielding surely some relief to his,While we sate listening with compassion due.A pause of silence followed; then, with voiceThat did not falter though the heart was … [Read more...] about The Excursion – Book Fourth – Despondency Corrected, By: William Wordsworth

'Twas summer, and the sun had mounted high:Southward the landscape indistinctly glaredThrough a pale steam; but all the northern downs,In clearest air ascending, showed far offA surface dappled o'er with shadows flungFrom brooding clouds; shadows that lay in spotsDetermined and unmoved, with steady beamsOf bright and pleasant sunshine interposed;To him most pleasant who on soft … [Read more...] about The Excursion – Book First – The Wanderer, By: William Wordsworth