William Wordsworth Quotes, Spring Quotes, Farewell Quotes

Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. * * * * * Then, little Bird, this boon confer, Come, and my requiem sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting spring.

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Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

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Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain.

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Bright flower! whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year through the heir Of joy or sorrow, Methinks that there abides in thee Some concord with humanity, Given to no other flower I see The forest through.

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Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.

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Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.

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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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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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She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!

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Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.

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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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A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.

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Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!

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It is the 1st mild day of March. Each minute sweeter than before... there is a blessing in the air.

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A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.

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And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.

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For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude

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It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.

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There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

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He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.

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