William Wordsworth Quotes, Lakes Quotes, Water Quotes

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

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Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.

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In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

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

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Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.

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Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised

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Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps Followed each other till a dreary moor Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge, I overlooked the bed of Windermere, Like a vast river, stretching in the sun.

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Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!

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The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!

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She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.

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

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When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.

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The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.

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Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

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For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

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How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

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We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.

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I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. 'Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and the dead.

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The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

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