William Wordsworth Quotes, Glory Quotes, Props Quotes

Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.

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Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature.

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In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . .

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She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.

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And mighty poets in their misery dead.

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The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose.

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A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be not unblest- compared With him who grovels, self-debarred From all that lies within the scope Of holy faith and christian hope; Or, shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

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A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.

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Free as a bird to settle where I will.

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The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

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Truth takes no account of centuries.

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To be young was very heaven!

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Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love.

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Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?

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But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?

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Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

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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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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

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A Primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him And it was something more.

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Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.

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