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Weeping, sad and lonely, Hopes and fears how vain! Yet praying, When the cruel war is over, Praying that we meet again! When the summer breeze is sighing Mournfully along; Or when autumn leaves are falling, Sadly breathes the song. Oft in dreams I see thee lying On the battle plain, Lonely, wounded, even dying, Calling, but in vain. (Chorus)
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the sky 1806 "With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the sky," Poems of the Fancy (1815); Miscellaneous Sonnets (1820) 1807 The world is too much with us; late and soon: 1806 "The world is too much with us; late and soon," Miscellaneous Sonnets: 1807 With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh 1806
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days! Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways: Cuchulain battling with the bitter tide; The Druid, grey, wood-nurtured, quiet eyed, Who cast round Fergus dreams, and ruin untold; And thine own sadness, whereof stars, grown old In dancing silver-sandalled on the sea, Sing in their high and lonely melody.
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also sometimes called "Daffodils" [2]) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. [3] It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by an encounter on 15 April 1802 during a walk with his younger sister Dorothy , when they saw a "long belt" of daffodils on the shore of Ullswater in the English Lake District . [ 4 ]
The poems were written during a short period while the poet lived in Germany. Although they individually deal with a variety of themes, the idea of Lucy's death weighs heavily on the poet throughout the series, imbuing the poems with a melancholic, elegiac tone. Whether Lucy was based on a real woman or was a figment of the poet's imagination ...
"The Solitary Reaper" is a lyric poem by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and one of his best-known works. [1] The poem was inspired by his and his sister Dorothy's stay at the village of Strathyre in the parish of Balquhidder in Scotland in September 1803. [2] "The Solitary Reaper" is one of Wordsworth's most famous post-Lyrical ...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Tears, Idle Tears" is a lyric poem written in 1847 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), the Victorian-era English poet. Published as one of the "songs" in his The Princess (1847), it is regarded for the quality of its lyrics.
The title page of Poems in Two Volumes. Poems, in Two Volumes is a collection of poetry by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, published in 1807. [1] It contains many notable poems, including: "Resolution and Independence" "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (sometimes anthologized as "The Daffodils") "My Heart Leaps Up" "Ode: Intimations of ...