William Wordsworth Quotes, Life Quotes, Way Quotes

Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.

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Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?

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I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

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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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'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

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Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.

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Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!

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Oh, be wise, Thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

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The mysteries that cups of flowers infold And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold.

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Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.

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Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

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

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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

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The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.

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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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All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

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

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Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.

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At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.

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