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 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 
 
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 With little here to do or see 
 
 Of things that in the great world be, 
 
 Sweet Daisy I oft I tallt to thee 
 
 For thou art worthy, 
 Thou unassuming common^place 
 Of Nature, with that homely face. 
 And yet with something of a grace 
 
 Which love makes for thee I 
 
 Oft on the dappled turf at ease 
 
 I sit and play with similes, 
 
 Loose types of things through all degrees, 
 
 Thoughts of thy raising! 
 And many a fond and idle name 
 I give to thee, for praise or blame 
 As is the humor of the game. 
 
 While I am gazing. 
 
 A nun demure, of lowly porti 
 
 Or sprightly maiden, of Love's court. 
 
 In thy simplicity the sport 
 
 Of all temptations; 
 A queen in crown of rubies dreslj 
 A starveling in a scanty vest) 
 Are all, as seems to suit thee best. 
 
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 LITTLE Cyclops, with one eye 
 Staring to threaten and defy, 
 That thought conies next'^and instantly 
 
 The freak is overj 
 The shape will vanish, and behold I 
 A silver shield with boss of gold 
 That spreads itself, some fairy bold 
 
 In fight to cover, 
 
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 SEE thee glittering from afar." 
 And then thou art a pretty star. 
 Not quite so fair as many are 
 In heaven above thee I 
 Yet like a star, with glittering crest, 
 Self'poised in air thou seem'st to restc 
 May peace come never to his nest 
 Who shall reprove thee I 
 
 WEET Flower! for by that name at last 
 When all my reveries are past 
 1 call thee, and to that cleave fast. 
 
 Sweet silent Creature I 
 That breath'st with me in sun and air, 
 Do thou, as thou art wont, repair 
 My heart with gladness, and a share 
 Of thy meek naturel 
 
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 Bright Flower ! whose home is everywhere 
 
 Bold in maternal Nature's care, 
 
 And all the long year through the heijr 
 
 Of joy or sorrows 
 Methinks that there abides in thee 
 Some concord with humanii 
 Given to no other flower I 
 
 The forest through 
 
 
 Is it that Man is soon deprest? 
 
 A thoughtless Thing I who once unblest, 
 
 Does little on his memory rest, 
 
 Or on his reason, 
 And Thou would'st teach him how to find 
 A shelter under every wind, 
 A hope for times that are unkind 
 
 And every season? 
 
 Thou wander'st the wide world about 
 
 Uncheck'd by pride or scrupulous doubt, 
 
 With friends to greet thee, or without, 
 
 Yet pleased and willing; 
 Meek, yielding to the occasion's call. 
 And all things suffering from all 
 Thy function apostolical 
 
 In peace fulfilling. 
 
 
That love which changed^/for wan disease, 
 
 For sorrow that had bent 
 
 O'er hopeless dust, for withered age" 
 
 Their moral element, 
 
 And turned the thistles of a curse 
 
 To types beneficent. 
 
 Sin.'blighted though we are, we too 
 The reasoning Sons of Men, 
 From one oblivious winter called 
 Shall rise, and breathe again; 
 And in eternal summer lose 
 Our threescore years and ten. 
 
 To humbleness of heart descends 
 
 This prescience from on high, 
 
 The faith that elevates the just, 
 
 Before and when they diej 
 
 And makes each soul a separate heaveni 
 
 A court for Deity. 
 
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Lone Flower, hemmed in with snows and 
 
 white as they 
 But hardier far, once more I see thee bend 
 Thy forehead, as if fearful to offend, 
 Like an unbidden guest. Though day by dayt 
 Storms, sallying from the mountain.<tops, 
 
 waylay 
 The rising sun, and on the plains descend) 
 Yet art thou welcome, welcome as a friend 
 Vhose zeal out runs his promise I Blue^-eyed 
 
 May 
 Shall soon behold this border thickly set 
 With bright jonquils, their cdcurs lavishing 
 On the soft west'wind and his frolic peers; 
 Nor will I then thy modest grace forget. 
 Chaste Snowdrop, venturous harbinger of 
 
 Spring, 
 And pensive monitor of fleeting years! 
 
ANSIES, lilies, kingcups, daisies, 
 Let them live upon their praisesf 
 Long as there's a sun that sets, 
 Primroses will have their gloryt 
 Long as there are Violets, 
 They will have a place in storys 
 There's a flower that shall be mine, 
 'Tis the little Celandine, 
 
 Eyes of some men travel far 
 For the finding of a star) 
 Up and down the heavens they ( 
 Men that keep a mighty rout I 
 I'm as !?reat as they, 1 trow, 
 Since the day I found thee out, 
 Little Flower l-zl'll make a stir, 
 Like a sage astronomer. 
 
 Modest, yet withal an Elf 
 Bold and lavish of thyselfi 
 Since we needs must first have met 
 I have seen thee, high and low. 
 Thirty years or more, and yet 
 'Twas a face I did not knowj 
 Thou hast now, go where I may. 
 Fifty greetings in a day. 
 
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 Ere a leaf is on a bush, 
 In the time before the thf ush 
 Has a thought about her nest, 
 Thou wilt come with half a call, 
 Spreading out thy glossy breast 
 Like a careless Prodigalf 
 Telling tales about the sun. 
 When we've little warmth, or none 
 
 Poets, vain men in their mood I 
 Travel with the multitude) 
 Never heed them; I aver 
 That they all are wanton wooersj 
 But the thrifty Cottager, 
 Who stirs little out of doors, 
 Joys to spy thee near her home. 
 Spring is coming, Thou art come 
 
 Comfort have thou of thy merit. 
 Kindly, unassuming Spirit 
 Careless of thy neighborhood. 
 Thou dost show'thy pleasant face 
 On the moor, and in the wood,' 
 In the lanei^'there's not a place, 
 Howsoever mean it be 
 But 'tis good enough for thee. 
 
 
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