Though The Bold Wings Of Poesy Affect

Though the bold wings of Poesy affect
The clouds, and wheel around the mountain tops
Rejoicing, from her loftiest height she drops
Well pleased to skim the plain with wild flowers deckt,
Or muse in solemn grove whose shades protect
The lingering dew - there steals along, or stops
Watching the least small bird that round her hops,
Or creeping worm, with sensitive respect.
Her functions are they therefore less divine,
Her thoughts less deep, or void of grave intent
Her simplest fancies? Should that fear be thine,
Aspiring Votary, ere thy hand present
One offering, kneel before her modest shrine,
With brow in penitential sorrow bent!

William Wordsworth . 1770-1850

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Poetry of Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
born 1770, died 1850

Poems

Though The Bold Wings Of Poesy Affect
If Thou Indeed Derive Thy Light From Heaven
Resolution And Independence
A Poet's Epitaph
Scorn Not The Sonnet
Remembrance Of Collins
At The Grave Of Burns
To The Sons Of Burns
Sonnet
The Manufacturing Spirit
The Factory At Night
The Working Classes
The God Of Love
She Was A Phantom Of Delight

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