“How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!”
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Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England
“The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“Far from the world I walk, and from all care.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
“Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.”
“Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.”
Source: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
“Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
“And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.”
Source: The Earlier Poems of William Wordsworth: Corrected as in the Latest Editions. With Preface, and Notes Showing the Text as it Stood in 1815
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
“In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.”
“With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...
Source: The Excursion,: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem
“Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
“Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men.”
“Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
“Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.”
Source: Lyrical Ballads
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)
“Meek Walton's heavenly memory.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...
Source: The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
“Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth