The Two Thieves; or, the last stage of Avarice The Matron of Jedborough and her Husband Though narrow be that old Man's cares, and near THE EARLIER POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. MY HEART LEAPS UP. My heart leaps up when I behold So was it when my life began; So be it when I shall grow old, The Child is father of the Man; Bound each to each by natural piety.* TO A BUTTERFLY. STAY near me do not take thy flight! Much converse do I find in thee, *Written at Town End, Grasmere. B 1804. Float near me; do not yet depart ! Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art! My father's family! Oh! pleasant, pleasant were the days, Together chased the butterfly! A very hunter did I rush Upon the prey-with leaps and springs THE SPARROW'S NEST. BEHOLD, within the leafy shade, I started-seeming to espy The Sparrow's dwelling, which, hard by My Father's house, in wet or dry My sister Emmeline and I Together visited. * Written March, 1802: see Miss Wordsworth's Journal. The expression that she was afraid of brushing the dust off the butterfly's wings, was her own. She looked at it and seemed to fear it; She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; FORESIGHT.† (OR, THE CHARGE OF A CHILD TO HIS YOUNGER COMPANION.) THAT is work of waste and ruin- We must spare them-here are many : * She looked at it as if she feared it, Still wishing, dreading to be near it.-Edit. 1815. + Written April, 1802, in consequence of an observation of his sister, that when she was a child she would not have pulled a strawberry blossom. Of the lofty daffodil Make your bed, or make your bower; Primroses, the Spring may love them- Withered on the ground must lie; Daisies leave no fruit behind When the pretty flowerets die ; God has given a kindlier power You and Charles and I will walk ;* Lurking berries, ripe and red, Then will hang on every stalk, Each within its leafy bower; And for that promise spare the flower. CHARACTERISTICS OF A CHILD THREE LOVING she is, and tractable, though wild; When the months of Spring are fled Hither let us bend our walk.-Edit. 1815. |