LXVII. — COMPOSED ON A MAY MORNING. 1838.-1838. LIFE with yon Lambs, like day, is just begun, Pale twilight's lingering glooms, and in the sun As they from turf yet hoar with sleepy dew LXVIII. 1838.1838. BLEST Statesman He, whose Mind's unselfish will Leaves him at ease among grand thoughts: whose eye Sees that, apart from magnanimity, Wisdom exists not; nor the humbler skill Of Prudence, disentangling good and ill With patient care. What tho' assaults run high, Its duties; prompt to move, but firm to wait; - Perilous is sweeping change, all chance unsound. LXIX. - TO A PAINTER. 1841. - 1842. ALL praise the Likeness by thy skill portrayed; Who, yielding not to changes Time has made, Eyes unbedimmed, see bloom that cannot fade, Which hold, whate'er to common sight appears, THOUGH I beheld at first with blank surprise O, my Beloved! I have done thee wrong, A POET! LXXI. 1842. - 1842. He hath put his heart to school, Nor dares to move unpropped upon the staff Which Art hath lodged within his hand; must laugh By precept only, and shed tears by rule. Thy Art be Nature; the live current quaff, Down to its root, and, in that freedom, bold; Birth. At Hawkshead School. At Cambridge. Vacation Tour through France, Switzerland, and Italy. Return to London. At Isle of Wight. At Penrith, with Calvert. Removes to Alfoxden. Visits Germany (Goslar). Leaves Goslar; begins Prelude; settles at Dove Cottage, Town-End, Grasmere. Marriage. Tour in Scotland. 1805 Death of John Wordsworth. ... 1808 1811.. Removes to Allan Bank, Grasmere; The Excursion. Removes to the Parsonage, Grasmere. 1813 Removes to Rydal Mount. Second Visit to Scotland. Visits the Continent. Visits Abbotsford. Last Visit to Scotland. Italian Tour. 1839 Oxford Degree. 1842. Poet Laureate. 1850 . . . Death. |