William Wordsworth Quotes, Hours Quotes

Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave!

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The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow

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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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I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.

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He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

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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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How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!

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Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

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For mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favourite be feeble woman's breast.

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Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

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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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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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But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?

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And I am happy when I sing.

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

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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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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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Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

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