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Memorials Of A Tour On The Continent, 1820 – VIII. – In A Carriage, Upon The Banks Of The Rhine, By: William Wordsworth
Amid this dance of objects sadness stealsO'er the defrauded heart while sweeping by,As in a fit of Thespian jollity,Beneath her vine-leaf crown the green Earth reels:Backward, in rapid evanescence, wheelsThe venerable pageantry of Time,Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime,And what the Dell unwillingly revealsOf lurking cloistral arch, through trees espiedNear the … [Read more...] about Memorials Of A Tour On The Continent, 1820 – VIII. – In A Carriage, Upon The Banks Of The Rhine, By: William Wordsworth
Memorials Of A Tour On The Continent, 1820 – VII. – In The Cathedral At Cologne, By: William Wordsworth
O for the help of Angels to completeThis Temple, Angels governed by a planThus far pursued (how gloriously!) by Man,Studious that He might not disdain the seatWho dwells in heaven! But that aspiring heatHath failed; and now, ye Powers! whose gorgeous wingsAnd splendid aspect yon emblazoningsBut faintly picture, 'twere an office meetFor you, on these unfinished shafts to tryThe … [Read more...] about Memorials Of A Tour On The Continent, 1820 – VII. – In The Cathedral At Cologne, By: William Wordsworth
Memorials Of A Tour On The Continent, 1820 – VI. – Aix-La-Chapelle, By: William Wordsworth
Was it to disenchant, and to undo,That we approached the Seat of Charlemaine?To sweep from many an old romantic strainThat faith which no devotion may renew!Why does this puny Church present to viewHer feeble columns? and that scanty chair!This sword that one of our weak times might wear!Objects of false pretense, or meanly true!If from a traveler's fortune I might claimA … [Read more...] about Memorials Of A Tour On The Continent, 1820 – VI. – Aix-La-Chapelle, By: William Wordsworth
Memorials Of A Tour On The Continent, 1820 – V. – Between Namur And Liege, By: William Wordsworth
What lovelier home could gentle Fancy choose?Is this the stream, whose cities, heights, and plains,War's favourite playground, are with crimson stainsFamiliar, as the Morn with pearly dews?The Morn, that now, along the silver Meuse,Spreading her peaceful ensigns, calls the swainsTo tend their silent boats and ringing wains,Or strip the bough whose mellow fruit bestrewsThe … [Read more...] about Memorials Of A Tour On The Continent, 1820 – V. – Between Namur And Liege, By: William Wordsworth