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• On a Beautiful Day

  O Unseen Spirit! now a calm divine
  Comes forth from thee, rejoicing earth and air!
  Trees, hills, and houses, all distinctly shine, …

  John Sterling

• God in Nature

  From “Paracelsus”
  I KNEW, I felt, (perception unexpressed,
  Uncomprehended by our narrow thought, …

  Robert Browning

• “My heart leaps up”

  My heart leaps up when I behold
  A rainbow in the sky;
  So was it when my life began, …

  William Wordsworth

• The Country Faith

  Here in the country’s heart
  Where the grass is green,
  Life is the same sweet life …

  Norman Gale

• Tintern Abbey

  Five years have past; five summers, with the length
  Of five long winters! and again I hear
  These waters, 1 rolling from their mountain-springs …

  William Wordsworth

• “Great Nature is an army gay”

  Great Nature is an army gay,
  Resistless marching on its way;
  I hear the bugles clear and sweet, …

  Richard Watson Gilder

• “Come to these scenes of peace”

  Come to these scenes of peace,
  Where, to rivers murmuring,
  The sweet birds all the summer sing, …

  William Lisle Bowles

• Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude

  Now the golden Morn aloft
  Waves her dew-bespangled wing,
  With vermeil cheek and whisper soft …

  Thomas Gray

• Influence of Natural Objects

  Wisdom and Spirit of the universe!
  Thou Soul, that art the eternity of thought!
  And giv’st to forms and images a breath …

  William Wordsworth

• An Indian Song

  O Wanderer in the southern weather,
  Our isle awaits us; on each lea
  The pea-hens dance; in crimson feather …

  William Butler Yeats

• The Tables Turned

  Up! up, my friend! and quit your books,
  Or surely you ’ll grow double;
  Up! up, my friend! and clear your looks! …

  William Wordsworth

• Fantasy

  From “The Vision of Delight”
  BREAK, Fantasy, from thy cave of cloud,
  And spread thy purple wings, …

  Ben Jonson

• Hallo, my Fancy

  IN melancholic fancy,
  Out of myself,
  In the vulcan dancy, …

  William Cleland

• Ideality

  The Vale of Tempe had in vain been fair,
  Green Ida never deemed the nurse of Jove;
  Each fabled stream, beneath its covert grove, …

  Hartley Coleridge

• Imagination

  From “a Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Act V. Sc. 1.
  THE LUNATIC, the lover, and the poet
  Are of imagination all compact: …

  William Shakespeare

• Queen Mab

  From “Romeo and Juliet,” Act I. Sc. 4.
  O, THEN, I see, Queen Mab hath been with you.
  She is the fairies’ midwife; and she comes …

  William Shakespeare

• Oberon’s Feast

  Shapcot! to thee the Fairy State
  I with discretion dedicate:
  Because thou prizest things that are …

  Robert Herrick

• Fairy’s Song

  From “a Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Act II. Sc. 1.
  OVER hill, over dale,
  Thorough bush, thorough brier, …

  William Shakespeare

• Compliment to Queen Elizabeth

  From “a Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Act II. Sc. 1.
  OBERON.—My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou remember’st
  Since once I sat upon a promontory, …

  William Shakespeare

• The Fairies’ Lullaby

  From “a Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Act II. Sc. 2.
  Enter TITANIA, with her train.
  TITANIA.—Come, now a roundel, and a fairy song; …

  William Shakespeare

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