William Wordsworth Quotes, Time Quotes, Moving Quotes

On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.

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Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

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The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

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

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Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?

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His love was like the liberal air, embracing all, to cheer and bless.

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Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.

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My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.

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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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Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

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Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

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

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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

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O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?

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Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

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my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion.

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Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came.

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

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Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

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Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.

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