William Wordsworth Quotes, Stars Quotes, Sleep Quotes

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.

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I'll teach my boy the sweetest things; I'll teach him how the owlet sings.

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The eye— it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our will.

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In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . .

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Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.

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When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.

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But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence.

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His love was like the liberal air, embracing all, to cheer and bless.

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Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!

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Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.

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A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

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Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.

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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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Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

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A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

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in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

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Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.

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Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

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Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen.

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To be young was very heaven!

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