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By the Seaside
(William Wordsworth)

The sun is couched, the sea-fowl gone to rest,
And the wild storm hath somewhere found a nest;
Air slumbers--wave with wave no longer strives,
Only a heaving of the deep survives,
A tell-tale motion! soon will it be laid,
And by the tide alone the water swayed.
Stealthy withdrawings, interminglings mild
Of light with shade in beauty reconciled--
Such is the prospect far as sight can range,
The soothing recompence, the welcome change.
Where, now, the ships that drove before the blast,
Threatened by angry breakers as they passed;
And by a train of flying clouds bemocked;
Or, in the hollow surge, at anchor rocked
As on a bed of death? Some lodge in peace,
Saved by His care who bade the tempest cease;
And some, too heedless of past danger, court
Fresh gales to waft them to the far-off port
But near, or hanging sea and sky between,
Not one of all those winged powers is seen,
Seen in her course, nor 'mid this quiet heard;
Yet oh! how gladly would the air be stirred
By some acknowledgment of thanks and praise,
Soft in its temper as those vesper lays
Sung to the Virgin while accordant oars
Urge the slow bark along Calabrian shores;
A sea-born service through the mountains felt
Till into one loved vision all things melt:
Or like those hymns that soothe with graver sound
The gulfy coast of Norway iron-bound;
And, from the wide and open Baltic, rise
With punctual care, Lutherian harmonies.
Hush, not a voice is here! but why repine,
Now when the star of eve comes forth to shine
On British waters with that look benign?
Ye mariners, that plough your onward way,
Or in the haven rest, or sheltering bay,
May silent thanks at least to God be given
With a full heart; "our thoughts are 'heard' in heaven."


Poems/ Poetry / Quotations by William Wordsworth
 A Whirl-blast From Behind The Hill | An Evening Walk, Addressed To A Young Lady | Animal Tranquillity And Decay | Birth Of Love, The | England, 1802 I | England, 1802 V | "She Was a Phantom of Delight" | "Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower," | A Night-Piece | Dion | Evening on Calais Beach | Expostulation and Reply | Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg | For The Spot Where The Hermitage Stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwentwater. | Hart-Leap Well | Her Eyes are Wild | I Know an Old Man Constrained to Dwell | I Travelled Among Unknown Men | Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge | It Is a Beauteous Evening | It was an April morning: fresh and clear | Kitten And Falling Leaves, The | Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey | Lines Written In Early Spring | Lucy i | Lucy iii | Most Sweet it is | Mother's Return, The | Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room | O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art | Oak and The Broom, The: A Pastoral Poem | Ode to Duty | Old Cumberland Beggar, The | Perfect Woman | Resolution and Independence | Sailor's Mother, The | Scorn Not the Sonnet | She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways | Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman | Simplon Pass, The | Stanzas | Stepping Westward | Primrose of the Rock, The | Thorn, The | Three Years She Grew | Two April Mornings, The | Sun Has Long Been Set, The | To Joanna | To The Daisy (first poem) | Upon Westminster Bridge | Valedictory Sonnet to the River Duddon | Waterfall and The Eglantine, The | Written in London. September, 1802 |


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