Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: IV. Thought: Poetry: Books | | The Inner Vision | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | MOST sweet it is with unuplifted eyes | |
| To pace the ground, if path there be or none, | |
| While a fair region round the traveller lies | |
| Which he forbears again to look upon; | |
| Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene, | 5 |
| The work of fancy, or some happy tone | |
| Of meditation, slipping in between | |
| The beauty coming and the beauty gone. | |
| If Thought and Love desert us, from that day | |
| Let us break off all commerce with the Muse: | 10 |
| With Thought and Love companions of our way,— | |
| Whate’er the senses take or may refuse,— | |
| The mind’s internal Heaven shall shed her dews | |
| Of inspiration on the humblest lay. | | | | |
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