Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Lines Written at a Small Distance From my House, and Sent by my Little Boy to the Person to Whom They Are Addressed [from Lyrical Ballads]

1798

"Some silent laws our hearts may make, / Which they shall long obey"

One moment now may give us more
Than fifty years of reason;
Our minds shall drink at every pore
The spirit of the season.

Some silent laws our hearts may make,
Which they shall long obey;
We for the year to come may take
Our temper from to-day.

And from the blessed power that rolls
About, below, above;
We'll frame the measure of our souls,
They shall be tuned to love.

Government::Law

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3 entries in ESTC (1798, 1800).

See Lyrical Ballads With a Few Other Poems (Bristol: Printed by Biggs and Cottle, for T. N. Longman, Paternoster-Row, London, 1798). <Link to ESTC>

See also Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems. (London: Printed for J. & A. Arch, Gracechurch-Street, 1798). <Link to ESTC>

09/29/2006