[PDF] Yarrow Revisited Other Poems eBook

Author : William Wordsworth
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Page : 250 pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 1835
Category : English poetry
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"Poems composed during a tour in Scotland, and on the English border, in the autumn of 1831"--

Author : William Wordsworth
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Page : 420 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 1835
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"Poems composed during a tour in Scotland, and on the English border, in the autumn of 1831"--

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781333473570

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Excerpt from Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems Yarrow under his guidance, immediately before his depar ture from Abbotsford, for Naples. The title Yarrow Revisited will stand in no need of ex planation, for Readers acquainted with the Author's previous poems suggested by that celebrated Stream.] the gallant Youth, who may have gained, Or seeks, a Winsome Marrow, Was but an Infant in the lap When first I looked on Yarrow; Once more, by Newark's Castle-gate Long left without a Warder, I stood, looked, listened, and with Thee, Great Minstrel of the Border! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230220635

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ... postscript. In the present volume, as in the author's previous poems the reader will have found occasionally opinions expressed upon the course of public affairs, and feelings given vent to as national interests excited them. Since nothing, he trusts, has been uttered but in the spirit of reflective patriotism, those notices are left to produce their own effect; but, among the many objects of general concern, and the changes going forward, which he has glanced at in verse, are some especially affecting the lower orders of society: in reference to these, he wishes here to add a few words in plain prose. Were he conscious of being able to do justice to those important topics, he might avail himself of the periodical press for offering-anonymously his thoughts, such as they are, to the world; but he feels that, in procuring attention, they may derive some advantage, however small, from his name, in addition to that of being presented in a less fugitive shape. It is also not impossible that the state of mind which some of the foregoing poems may have produced in the reader will dispose him to receive more readily the impression the author desires to make, and to admit the conclusions he would establish. I. The first thing that presses upon his attention is the Poor-Law Amendment Act. He is aware of the magnitude and complexity of the subject, and the unwearied attention which it has received from men of far wider experience than his own; yet he cannot forbear touching upon one point of it, and to this he will confine himself, though not insensible to the objection which may reasonably be brought against treating a portion of this, or any other, great scheme of civil polity separately from the whole. The point to which he wishes to draw the...