The vale ne’er seemed so deep before,
Nor yet so high the hill.
An awful sense of quietness,
A fulness of repose,
Breathes from the dewy garden-lawns,
The silent garden rows.
As the hoof-beats of a troop of horse
Heard far across a plain,
A nearer knowledge of great thoughts
Thrills vaguely through my brain.
I lean my head upon my arm,
My heart’s too full to think;
Like the roar of seas, upon my heart
Doth the morning stillness sink.
And, flowing, carry virtue. Far below,The vain tumultuous passions of the hourFleet fast and disappear; and as the sunShines on the wake of tempests, there is castO’er all the shattered ruins of my pastA strong contentment as of battles won.And yet I cry in anguish, as I hearThe long drawn pageant of your passage rollMagnificently…
Full of my bygone lifetime’s garnered store –Old pleasures crowned with sorrow for a zest,Old sorrow grown a joy, old penance blest,Chastened remembrance of the sins of yoreThat, like a new evangel, more and moreSupports our halting will toward the best.Ah! what to us the barren after yearsMay bring of joy or sorrow, who can…
O feebly twittering Autumn bird that tellsThe year is like to die!O still, spoiled trees, O city ways,O sun desired in vain,O dread presentiment of coming rainThat cloys the sullen days!Thee, heart of mine, I greet.In what hard mountain passStriv’st thou? In what importunate morassSink now thy weary feet?Thou run’st a hopeless raceTo win despair….
Out through the breach in the wall of the garden,Down by the banks of the river we go.Here is a mill with the humming of thunder,Here is the weir with the wonder of foam,Here is the sluice with the race running under–Marvellous places, though handy to home!Sounds of the village grow stiller and stiller,Stiller the…
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow–Not at all like proper children, which…
To leave me lonely as before,Or leave my soul alone again.
