William Wordsworth Quotes

The budding rose above the rose full blown.

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The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow

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If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus famliarised to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to the aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.

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Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.

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Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.

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That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton.

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Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.

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We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

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But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence.

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Delivered from the galling yoke of time.

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For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

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For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.

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But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.

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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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The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune.

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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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We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.

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The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.

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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

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The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

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