William Wordsworth Quotes, Eye Quotes, Men Quotes

Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!

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And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.

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Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.

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The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink I heard a voice it said Drink, pretty creature, drink'

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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.

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How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!

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Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.

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Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet

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Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet.

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The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!

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Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

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Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come To none more grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, where I long had pined A discontented sojourner: now free, Free as a bird to settle where I will.

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The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.

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Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

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Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art; Close up these barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.

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Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security.

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I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man.

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Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

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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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What know we of the Blest above but that they sing, and that they love?

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