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Ecclesiastical Sonnets – Part III. – XXXVII – Congratulation, By: William Wordsworth

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Thus all things lead to Charity securedBy them who blessed the soft and happy galeThat landward urged the great Deliverer's sail,Till in the sunny bay his fleet was moored!Propitious hour! had we, like them, enduredSore stress of apprehension, with a mindSickened by injuries, dreading worse designed,From month to month trembling and unassured,How had we then rejoiced! But we … [Read more...] about Ecclesiastical Sonnets – Part III. – XXXVII – Congratulation, By: William Wordsworth

Ecclesiastical Sonnets – Part III. – XXXVI – Emigrant French Clergy, By: William Wordsworth

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Even while I speak, the sacred roofs of FranceAre shattered into dust; and self-exiledFrom altars threatened, leveled, or defiled,Wander the Ministers of God, as chanceOpens a way for life, or consonanceOf faith invites. More welcome to no landThe fugitives than to the British strand,Where priest and layman with the vigilanceOf true compassion greet them. Creed and testVanish … [Read more...] about Ecclesiastical Sonnets – Part III. – XXXVI – Emigrant French Clergy, By: William Wordsworth

Ecclesiastical Sonnets – Part III. – XXXV – Old Abbeys, By: William Wordsworth

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Monastic Domes! following my downward way,Untouched by due regret I marked your fall!Now, ruin, beauty, ancient stillness, allDispose to judgments temperate as we layOn our past selves in life's declining day:For as, by discipline of Time made wise,We learn to tolerate the infirmitiesAnd faults of others, gently as he may,So with our own the mild Instructor deals,Teaching us to … [Read more...] about Ecclesiastical Sonnets – Part III. – XXXV – Old Abbeys, By: William Wordsworth

Ecclesiastical Sonnets – Part III. – XXXIX – Church To Be Erected, By: William Wordsworth

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Be this the chosen site; the virgin sod,Moistened from age to age by dewy eve,Shall disappear, and grateful earth receiveThe corner-stone from hands that build to God.Yon reverend hawthorns, hardened to the rodOf winter storms, yet budding cheerfully;Those forest oaks of Druid memory,Shall long survive, to shelter the AbodeOf genuine Faith. Where, haply, 'mid this bandOf … [Read more...] about Ecclesiastical Sonnets – Part III. – XXXIX – Church To Be Erected, By: William Wordsworth

Ecclesiastical Sonnets – Part III. – XXXIV – Mutability, By: William Wordsworth

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From low to high doth dissolution climb,And sink from high to low, along a scaleOf awful notes, whose concord shall not fail;A musical but melancholy chime,Which they can hear who meddle not with crime,Nor avarice, nor over-anxious care.Truth fails not; but her outward forms that bearThe longest date do melt like frosty rime,That in the morning whitened hill and plainAnd is no … [Read more...] about Ecclesiastical Sonnets – Part III. – XXXIV – Mutability, By: William Wordsworth