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Laodamia

William Wordsworth

Laodamia is a narrative poem by William Wordsworth based on a story from the Trojan War.

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“Yet tears to human suffering are due;
And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown
Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.”

William Wordsworth Laodamia

Stanza 28.
Laodamia (1814)

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“He spake of love, such love as spirits feel
In worlds whose course is equable and pure;
No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,—
The past unsighed for, and the future sure.”

William Wordsworth Laodamia

Stanza 17.
Laodamia (1814)

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“Mightier far
Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway
Of magic potent over sun and star,
Is Love, though oft to agony distrest,
And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast.”

William Wordsworth Laodamia

Stanza 14.
Laodamia (1814)

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“For the gods approve
The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.”

William Wordsworth Laodamia

Stanza 13.
Laodamia (1814)

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“Elysian beauty, melancholy grace,
Brought from a pensive though a happy place.”

William Wordsworth Laodamia

Stanza 16.
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“Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there
In happier beauty; more pellucid streams,
An ampler ether, a diviner air,
And fields invested with purpureal gleams.”

William Wordsworth Laodamia

Stanza 18.
Laodamia (1814)

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