Though the bold wings of Poesy affect
The clouds, and wheel around the mountain tops
Rejoicing, from her loftiest height she drops
Well pleased to skim the plain with wild flowers deckt
Or muse in solemn grove whose shades protect
The lingering dew there steals along, or stops
Watching the least small bird that round her hops,
Or creeping worm, with sensitive respect.
Her functions are they therefore less divine,
Her thoughts less deep, or void of grave intent
Her simplest fancies? Should that fear be thine,
Aspiring Votary, ere thy hand present
One offering, kneel before her modest shrine,
With brow in penitential sorrow bent!
Though The Bold Wings Of Poesy Affect
William Wordsworth
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Poem topics: fear, respect, sorrow, sensitive, bird, wild, deep, bold, small, plain, mountain, protect, grave, divine, void, wheel, thine, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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