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" No sport of every random gust, Yet being to myself a guide, Too blindly have reposed my trust ; And oft, when in my heart was heard... "
Autumn Hours and Fireside Reading - Page 142
by Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1854 - 311 pages
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Quiet Hours: A Collection of Poems

Mary Wilder Tileston - 1877 - 204 pages
...totter, teach them to stand fast ! Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature be, When love is an unerring light, And joy its own security....unwisely bold, Live in the spirit of this creed ; Yet find that other strength, according to their need. I, Coving freedom, and untried ; No sport of every...
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The poets' year, a birthday register with selections from Chaucer to Longfellow

Poets - 1877 - 300 pages
...will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature be, When love is an unerring light, And joy her own security. And they a blissful course may hold...unwisely bold, Live in the spirit of this creed ; Yet find that other strength according to their need. Lord Campbell, 1779. Fenimore Cooper, 1789. Ode to...
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The Works of Sir Henry Taylor, Issue 73, Volume 5

Sir Henry Taylor - 1878 - 378 pages
...from the ' Ode to Duty : ' — " Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature be, When love is an unerring light, And joy its own security....unwisely bold, Live in the spirit of this creed, Yet find that other strength, according to their need." So much for Mr. Wordsworth's philosophy. In his...
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The Midland Naturalist: Journal of the Midland Union of Natural ..., Volume 10

1887 - 340 pages
...Wordsworth in lu's " Ode to Duty." " Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature be When Love is an unerring light, And joy its own security....unwisely bold, Live in the spirit of this creed, Yet find that other strength, according to their need.'' THE MIDDLE LIAS OF NOBTHAMPTONSHIKE. BY BEEBY...
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Poems of Imagination and Fancy

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 262 pages
...will be our days and bright And happy will our nature be, When love is an unerring light, And joy ita own security. And they a blissful course may hold...Yet seek thy firm support, according to their need. I, loving freedom, and untried, No sport of every random gust, Yet being to myself a guide, Too blindly...
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An Anthology of World Poetry

Mark Van Doren - 1928 - 1390 pages
...arms, dread Power, around them cast. Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature be, When love is an unerring light, And joy its own security....Yet seek thy firm support, according to their need. I, loving freedom, and untried; No sport of every random gust, Yet being to myself a guide, Too blindly...
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Romantic Poetry of the Early Nineteenth Century

Arthur Beatty - 1928 - 582 pages
...arms, dread Power ! around them cast. Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature be, When love is an unerring light, And joy its own security....Yet seek thy firm support, according to their need. I, loving freedom, and untried ; No sport of every random gust, Yet being to myself a guide, Too blindly...
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The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (text of 1805)

William Wordsworth - 1970 - 372 pages
...completing the poem — in the Ode to Duty, where he renounces his reliance on the genial sense of youth When love is an unerring light And joy its own security, — and in the second half of the 'immortal Ode'. But though he undoubtedly passed through a period of spiritual...
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Selected Poems

William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...arms, dread Power! around them cast. Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature be, When love is an unerring light, And joy its own security....Yet seek thy firm support, according to their need. I, loving freedom, and untried; No sport of every random gust, Yet being to myself a guide, Too blindly...
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Be a Poet

Nancy Bogen - 2007 - 426 pages
...arms, dread Power! around them cast. Serene will be our days and bright, And happy will our nature be, When love is an unerring light, And joy its own security....Yet seek thy firm support, according to their need. I, loving freedom, and untried; No sport of every random gust, Yet being to myself a guide, Too blindly...
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