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Written in Germany, On One of The Coldest Days Of The Century
(William Wordsworth)

A plague on your languages, German and Norse!
Let me have the song of the kettle;
And the tongs and the poker, instead of that horse
That gallops away with such fury and force
On this dreary dull plate of black metal.

See that Fly,--a disconsolate creature! perhaps
A child of the field or the grove;
And, sorrow for him! the dull treacherous heat
Has seduced the poor fool from his winter retreat,
And he creeps to the edge of my stove.

Alas! how he fumbles about the domains
Which this comfortless oven environ!
He cannot find out in what track he must crawl,
Now back to the tiles, then in search of the wall,
And now on the brink of the iron.

Stock-still there he stands like a traveller bemazed:
The best of his skill he has tried;
His feelers, methinks, I can see him put forth
To the east and the west, to the south and the north;
But he finds neither guide-post nor guide.

His spindles sink under him, foot, leg, and thigh!
His eyesight and hearing are lost;
Between life and death his blood freezes and thaws;
And his two pretty pinions of blue dusky gauze
Are glued to his sides by the frost.

No brother, no mate has he near him--while I
Can draw warmth from the cheek of my Love;
As blest and as glad, in this desolate gloom,
As if green summer grass were the floor of my room,
And woodbines were hanging above.

Yet, God is my witness, thou small helpless Thing!
Thy life I would gladly sustain
Till summer come up from the south, and with crowds
Of thy brethren a march thou should'st sound through the clouds,
And back to the forests again!


Poems/ Poetry / Quotations by William Wordsworth
 Address To The Scholars Of The Village School Of ---- | Anecdote For Fathers | Brothers, The | Calm Is All Nature As A Resting Wheel. | Character Of The Happy Warrior | Complaint Of A Forsaken Indian Woman, The | Danish Boy, The: A Fragment | Elegiac Stanzas | Ellen Irwin | England, 1802 ii | England, 1802 iii | England, 1802 iv | "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" | "The World Is Too Much With Us; Late and Soon" | "There is an Eminence,--of these our hills" | A Complaint | A Night Thought | A Poet's Epitaph | After-Thought | Foresight | Forsaken, The | Fountain, The: A Conversation | Green Linnet, The | Guilt and Sorrow | Idle Shepherd Boys, The | Influence of Natural Objects | Lines written as a School Exercise at Hawkshead, Anno Aetatis | London, 1802 | Lucy Gray | Lucy ii | Lucy iv | November, 1806 | Nutting | Seven Sisters, The | October, 1803 | Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood | On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic | Peter Bell, A Tale | Pet-Lamb, The: A Pastoral Poem | Rainbow, The | Remembrance of Collins | She Was a Phantom of Delight | Speak! | Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known | Longest Day, The | Prelude, The - (Book 2) | Table Turned, The | World Is Too Much With Us, The | Virgin, The | Trosachs, The | Sonnet, The (i) | To A Butterfly (first poem) | To a Highland Girl (At Inversneyde, upon Loch Lomond) | To A Sexton | To a Skylark | To May | To My Sister | To The Cuckoo | To The Daisy (fourth poem) | To The Same Flower (second poem) | Two Thieves, The | Yarrow Revisited |


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