Intimations of Immortality; From Recollections of Early Childhood and Other Poems
1895
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...we will downward with the Tweed, Nor turn aside to Yarrow. "There's Galla Water, Leader Haughs, Both lying right before us; And Dryborough, where with chiming Tweed 20 The lintwhites sing in chorus; There's pleasant Tiviot-dale, a land Made blithe with plough and harrow: Why throw away a needful day To go in search of Yarrow? 9. Frae. Scottish for/rom. YARROW UNVISITED. 53 25 " What's Yarrow but a river bare, That glides the dark hills under? There are a thousand such elsewhere, As worthy of your wonder." Strange words they seemed of slight and scorn! M My true-love sighed for sorrow; And looked me in the face, to think I thus could speak of Yarrow! "Oh, green," said I, " are Yarrow's holms, And sweet is Yarrow flowing! 35 Fair hangs the apple f rae the rock, But we will leave it growing. O'er hilly path, and open Strath, We 'll wander Scotland thorough; But, though so near, we will not turn -o Into the dale of Yarrow. "Let beeves and homebred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow! - We will not see them; will not go To-day, nor yet to-morrow; Enough, if in our hearts we know There's such a place as Yarrow. "Be Yarrow stream unseen, unknown I so It must, or we shall rue it: We have a vision of our own; Ah! why should we undo it? The treasured dreams of times long past, We 'll keep them, winsome Marrow! 55 For when we 're there, although 't is fair, 'T will be another Yarrow! "If cUre with freezing years should come, And wandering seem but folly, —Should we be loth to stir from home, eo And yet be melancholy, —Should life be dull, and spirits low, 'T will soothe us in our sorrow, That earth has something yet to show, The bonny holms o...
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William Wordsworth
Author · 63 books
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth's masterpiece is generally considered to be The Prelude, an autobiographical poem of his early years, which the poet revised and expanded a number of times. The work was posthumously titled and published, prior to which, it was generally known as the poem "to Coleridge". Wordsworth was England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
