A Selection from the Sonnets of William Wordsworth


Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk

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This is a very impressive collection of some of the best sonnets from the pen of the incomparable William Wordsworth. The appreciation that Wordsworth had for the beauty of his surroundings is vibrantly exhibited in these selections, as are his feelings on love, friendship, society, conflict, history, the supernatural and indeed the art of poetry itself. And what better vehicle for the elegant articulation of a master poet's thoughts and inspirations than the sonnet, an art form ideally suited to assertion, verbalization and contemplation.

In these sonnets, we witness Wordsworth's poetic expertise at its best in superb descriptions of nature's splendor which he astutely juxtaposes with his reflections on a world that is "too much with us," a world in which, "man for brother man has ceased to feel."

The sanctuary that Wordsworth found and which forms the basis for the inspiration displayed in many of these sonnets was the magnificent Lake District of England, which he depicted as, "At happy distance from Earth's groaning field, / Where ruthless mortals wage incessant wars." Such a sanctuary the poet would have wished for us all, and indeed provided the means for at least our vicarious enjoyment in the form of these enduring and timeless works of art.
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Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room 1:20 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned 1:19 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Written in very Early Youth 1:20 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret 1:26 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
How clear, how keen, how marvellously bright 1:22 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
While not a leaf seems faded; while the fields 1:20 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
There is a pleasure in poetic pains 1:17 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Oxford, May 30, 1820 1:19 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
A Parsonage in Oxfordshire 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour! 1:20 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Mark the concentred hazels that enclose 1:22 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Composed at Rydal on May Morning, 1838 1:23 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Though the bold wings of Poesy affect 1:22 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Pelion and Ossa flourish side by side 1:17 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To Sleep 1:25 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Fond words have oft been spoken to thee, Sleep! 1:23 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
The River Eden, Cumberland 1:16 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Surprised by joy - impatient as the Wind 1:23 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Her only pilot the soft breeze, the boat 1:19 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh 1:16 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go? 1:21 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Sole listener, Duddon! to the Breeze that played 1:17 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
What aspect bore the Man who roved or fled 1:20 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Hail to the fields - with dwellings sprinkled o'er 1:23 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
The Stepping-Stones 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Whence that low voice? - A whisper from the heart 1:22 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
I thought of Thee, my partner and my guide 1:22 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Brook! whose society the poet seeks 1:22 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Methinks that to some vacant hermitage 1:20 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
There is a little unpretending Rill 1:20 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Written upon a Blank Leaf in "The Complete Angler" 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Oh Friend! I know not which way I must look 1:24 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
The world is too much with us; late and soon 1:20 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour 1:28 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Great men have been among us; hands that penned 1:22 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
It is not to be thought of that the Flood 1:19 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
When I have borne in memory what has tamed 1:16 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Near Dover 1:22 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Vanguard of Liberty, ye men of Kent 1:22 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland 1:25 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
An Invasion Being Expected, October 1803 1:22 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Composed in the Valley near Dover, on the Day of Landing 1:28 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Not Love, not War, nor the tumultuous swell 1:22 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To Toussaint L'Ouverture 1:16 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
When Philoctetes in the Lemnian Isle 1:19 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
When haughty expectations prostrate lie 1:21 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
O'er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain 1:21 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
By Grasmere Lake 1:21 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Composed by the Sea-Side, Near Calais 1:24 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
As leaves are to the tree whereon they grow 1:25 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Adieu, Rydalian Laurels! that have grown 1:20 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
The Trosachs 1:19 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Admonition 1:19 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
The forest huge of ancient Caledon 1:19 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Aix-la-Chapelle 1:05 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Between Namur and Liège 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Composed on Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Roman Antiquities 1:14 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
The Monument commonly called Long Meg and Her Daughters, near the River Eden 1:12 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
There! said a Stripling, pointing with meet pride 1:10 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Mary Queen of Scots 1:09 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
In sight of the Town of Cockermouth 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
A Place of Burial in the South of Scotland 1:19 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes 1:11 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
In King's College Chapel, Cambridge 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
They dreamt not of a perishable home 1:14 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Rural Ceremony 1:12 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Places of Worship 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Who but is pleased to watch the moon on high 1:13 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said 1:16 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the sky 1:23 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
The stars are mansions built by Nature's hand 1:21 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To a Snow-drop 1:16 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Hark! 'tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest 1:25 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
I dropped my pen; and listened to the Wind 1:17 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free 1:14 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To the Cuckoo 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Near Anio's stream, I spied a gentle Dove 1:20 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Composed on a May Morning 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Personal Talk 1:14 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Yet life, you say, "is life; we have seen and see" 1:17 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Wings have we - and as far as we can go 1:17 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Nor can I not believe but that hereby 1:17 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks 1:21 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Why art thou silent? Is thy love a plant 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
To the Planet Venus, an Evening Star 1:18 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Valedictory Sonnet 1:24 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk

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I love Wordsworth and I appreciate the effort the reader has put in but it is very hard to listen too. Perhaps it's an accent. There's a lot of energy but your tone is flat.