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“Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.”

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This compilation includes a variety of works by William Wordsworth, one of the most influential English poets of the Romantic era. The poems delve into themes of nature's beauty, the joys and sorrows of solitude, and the complexities of human relationships. Wordsworth's distinctive style, characterized by vivid imagery and a deep connection to the natural world, is prominently featured throughout. more

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet, born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, and died on April 23, 1850. His poetry is renowned for its depiction of natural landscapes and profound expression of personal emotions and inner world. more

“Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.”

Ifs Doe Stills Happiness Tree Bears Ought Fit Sorrow Consequence Fruit Mortals Useless Blight

Book:Complete writings: with variant readings

Source: Complete writings: with variant readings

“The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.”

Love Pain Love Is Pleasure Hell Sorrow Laughter Opposites Harmony Insanity Paradise Yearning Diamond Sweetness Torment Desirable Celestial Sorrowful

Author:Umberto Eco

“To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise.”

Knows Men Should Pain Happiness Wise Fate Ignorance Sorrow Late Rings Bliss Paradise Folly Too Late Being Wise Ignorance Is Bliss Unfeeling

Author:Thomas Gray

“There is no comfort in change But also no learning in the Steady drone of peace. There will be no greater sorrow Than watching you go - Except for watching you grow old And tired here - Clarity awaits Elsewhere”

Grows Peace Learning Greater Sorrow Comfort Tired Clarity Steady Elsewhere Drones

Author:S. D. Perry

“The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.”

Heart Fall Fields Flower Sorrow Spring Winter Tongue Fancy Yield Honey Fades Reckoning Wanton

Book:Miscellaneous works

Source: Miscellaneous works

“There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.”

Wisdom Sorrow Useless Hopeless

Book:A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774

Source: A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774

“In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.”

Sorrow Prison Couches Steep

Book:The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. To which are Now Added, Notes Illustrating Historical, Personal, and Local Allusions. [The Editor's Preface Signed: R. C., I.e. Robert Chambers.]

Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. To which are Now Added, Notes Illustrating Historical, Personal, and Local Allusions. [The Editor's Preface Signed: R. C., I.e. Robert Chambers.]

“It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite points of view. How we shall experience it depends upon the way we shall come up against it: God does not change; it is man's moral state that changes. The wrath of God is a figure of speech to denote God's unchanging opposition to sin; it is His righteous love operating to destroy evil. It is not evil that will have the last word, but good; not sorrow, but joy; not hate, but love.”

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