William Wordsworth Quotes, Flower Quotes, Sleep Quotes

I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How motionless! - not frozen seas More motionless! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you forth again!

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Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.

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She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy.

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Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

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Earth has not anything to show more fair.

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But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things.

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Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.

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To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!

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That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton.

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There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

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Oh, be wise, Thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

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What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.

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The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow

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It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.

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Love betters what is best

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Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.

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A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.

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Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.

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Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.

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But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.

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