William Wordsworth
Sonnets and Public Voice
Sonnets, London, liberty, national feeling, and Wordsworth's public moral voice.
The World Is Too Much With Us
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
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London, 1802
Milton! thou should’st be living at this hour:
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England hath need of thee: she is a fen
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Of stagna
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The Sonnet II
Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frown’d,
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Mindless of its just honours; with this key
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Valedictory Sonnet To The River Duddon
I thought of Thee, my partner and my guide,
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As being pass’d away.—Vain sympathies!
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For, backward
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Scorn Not The Sonnet
Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned,
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Mindless of its just honours; with this key
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Written In London. September, 1802
O Friend! I know not which way I must look
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For comfort, being, as I am, opprest,
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To think that n
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The Sonnet I
Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room,
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And hermits are contented with their cells,
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And st
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England, 1802 IV
It is not to be thought of that the flood
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Of British freedom, which, to the open sea
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Of the worl
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England, 1802 III
Great men have been among us; hands that penn’d
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And tongues that utter’d wisdom—better none:
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The
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England, 1802 II
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
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England hath need of thee: she is a fen
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Of stagnan
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England, 1802 I
O friend! I know not which way I must look
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For comfort, being, as I am, opprest,
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To think that n
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