Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
William Wordsworth
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Thou unassuming Commonplace
Of Nature.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Methought I say the footsteps of a throne.
- William Wordsworth,
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his natur...
MOHAMMED A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as...
HENRY FIELDING A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
MINNA ANTRIM we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular
way in which we have been ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that w...
JACOB BOEHME I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.
JASON BATEMAN No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common l...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Oh, Gods."
His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a com...
ILONA ANDREWS Even though I am an actor, by nature I am what you could call a homely girl.
DIVYANKA TRIPATHI Thou strange piece of wild nature!
COLLEY CIBBER She's so unassuming, she doesn't need to be a star.
GAIL GOESTENKORS Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that th...
SAINT AMBROSE William H. Rehnquist is by nature quiet and humble. His legacy is that he has shown us how to disagr...
DOUGLAS KMIEC Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and K...
IRVING LAYTON In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return
unto the ground; for out of it wast...
BIBLE And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in that ...
BIBLE It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cav...
ENYA Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
SAINT AUGUSTINE Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
ST. AUGUSTINE 'Common sense isn't common place'.
RICHARD 'GRIMESY' GRIMES This is the homely heart of Incarnation, this meeting of God in man with men and women, this simple ...
EUGENE KENNEDY I sleep with thee, and wake with thee,
And yet thou are not there;
I fill my arms with tho...
JOHN CLARE Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy str...
BIBLE That the public can grow accustomed to any face is proved by the increasing prevalence of Keith's ru...
PHILIP NORMAN I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Wil...
WILLEM DAFOE The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.
KEDAR JOSHI Thou hast prevariated with thy friend,
By underhand contrivances undone me:
And while my open ...
NICHOLAS ROWE Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population ...
JAN WONG In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt...
BIBLE The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
LAWRENCE WELK Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to thei...
BIBLE Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces
AUSTIN O'MALLEY Man is the miracle in nature. God
Is the One Miracle to man. Behold,
"There is a God," thou ...
JEAN INGELOW We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to o...
MOHSIN HAMID Action is transitory a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that 'Tis done, and in the ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The child is father of the man
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH All things that love the sun are out of doors.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Strongest mindsAre often those of whom the noisy worldHears least.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the wo...
VENERABLE BEDE A fine dress on a homely maiden is never enough of a distraction. It can convey a sense of wealth an...
LAURA MONCUR Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social bound...
JIMMY CARTER Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up goin...
STORY MUSGRAVE Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
PHILIP LARKIN Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands...
BIBLE And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee...
BIBLE LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was ...
BIBLE If thou believest that Christ was crucified for the sins of the world, thou must with Him be crucifi...
JOHN ARNDT He's one of the best — he's one of our icons. He's humble and unassuming.
TRENT JOHNSON These reactions can take place anywhere on the body. The face is the most common site, generally bec...
CAROL AGUIRRE For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou
shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:...
BIBLE My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.
KAILASH KHER But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
ANDREW MOTION I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
ARAVIND ADIGA Count no woman wise, until thou hast received a letter from her hand; but love none thou hast not se...
FRANK GELETT BURGESS Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? / Wilt thou break a leaf driven to a...
BIBLE The boy with the dirty face stood up and hugged Coraline tightly. 'Take comfort in this,' he whisper...
NEIL GAIMAN I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my h...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordswort...
JOHN BURROUGHS I do not believe that Nature has a heart; and I suspect that, like many another beauty, she has been...
FRANCIS THOMPSON My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When standing face to face with myself, I far too often refuse to look in the mirror. When standing ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.
A.K. KUYKENDALL The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which t...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine, and be not diffident
Of wisdom, ...
JOHN MILTON Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: / He ...
BIBLE I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern s...
KENNETH R. MILLER Everybody just thought the world of her. She was the nicest, most unassuming, wonderful woman.
KATHY STEELE See! he sinks
Without a word; and his ensanguined bier
Is vacant in the west, while far and n...
REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes
And interchanged love tokens with my child;
T...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Judge not thy neighbor until thou art come into his place
HEBREW PROVERB Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pai...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER I would say it is more homely than chi-chi but all the more charming for that,
DAVID CAMERON From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART Come, our stomachs
Will make what's homely savory.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let thy maidservant be faithful, strong, and homely
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost ...
BIBLE I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body a...
ALBERT EINSTEIN If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wo...
ANDREW MOTION We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generat...
THOM GUNN Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any...
EDUARDO PAES It was the most fleeting time of day, and maybe that was why it was her favorite. Because if you bli...
KELSEYLEIGH REBER Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea,
Why takest thou its melancholy voice,
And with that...
RICHARD HENRY DANA Hail, O bleeding Head and wounded,
With a crown of thorns surrounded,
Buffeted, and bruised an...
SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and ver...
LORD BYRON Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,But to be young was very heaven!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;And humble cares, and delicate fears;A heart, the fountain of swe...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And, when the streamWhich overflowed the soul was passed away,A consciousness remained that it had l...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gif...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Whenever I meet people who seem really sweet and unassuming, I kind of wonder about them.
HEATHER GRAHAM It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in m...
BIBLE The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
EDWARD GIBBON
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'Tis done--And...
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Small service is true service, while it lasts.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH On that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness...
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Behold the Child among his new-born blisses
A six years' Darling of a pigmy size!
See, where '...
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had el...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, dome...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of al...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
L...
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Lost in a gloom of uninspired research.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Solitary answered: Such a Form
Full well I recollect. We often crossed
Each other's path...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Come into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed pr...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtles...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a s...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Bright flowers, whose home is everywhere
Bold in maternal nature's care
And all the long year ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The cattle are grazing,
Their heads never raising:
There are forty feeding like one!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Much converse do I find in thee,
Historian of my infancy!
Float near me; do not yet depart!
...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Brook! whose society the poet seeks,
Intent his wasted spirits to renew;
And whom the curious...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And when a damp
Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand
The Thing became a trumpet; whence ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A famous man is Robin Hood
The English ballad-singer's joy.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH O blithe New-comer! I have heard,
I hear thee and rejoice;
O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH List--'twas the cuckoo--O, with what delight
Heard I that voice! and catch it now, though faint,
...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The sweetest thing that ever grew
Beside a human door.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I look for ghosts; but none will force
Their way to me; 'tis falsely said
That even there was ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale,
Which to this day stands single, in the midst
Of it...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Of vast circumference and gloom profound,
This solitary Tree! A living thing
Produced too slo...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing
Under the sky's gray arch;
Smiling I watch the...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Thou unassuming Commonplace
Of Nature.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH We meet thee, like a pleasant thought,
When such are wanted.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The poet's darling.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The marble index of a mind forever
Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay,
And at my easement sing,
Though it should prove a farewell...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Now when the primrose makes a splendid show,
And lilies face the March-winds in full blow,
And...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Who art a light to guide, a rod
To check the erring, and reprove.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Among the dwellings framed by birds
In field or forest with nice care,
Is none that with the l...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH We take no note of time
But from its loss.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays,
And confident to-morrows.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And beauty, for confiding youth,
Those shocks of passion can prepare
That kill the bloom befor...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Like an army defeated
The snow hath retreated,
And now doth fare ill
On the top of the b...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The swan on still St. Mary's lake
Float double, swan and shadow!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Art thou the bird whom Man loves best,
The pious bird with the scarlet breast,
Our little Engl...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Two voices are there; one is of the sea,
One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH He could afford to suffer
With those whom he saw suffer.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd
He that has none, must make them or be wretched...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows
That for oblivion that their daily birth
From all t...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I heard a Stock-dove sing or say
His homely tale, this very day;
His voice was buried among tr...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH As thou these ashes, little brook! will bear
Into the Avon, Avon to the tide
Of Severn, Sever...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Like--but oh! how different!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Sad fancies do we then affect,
In luxury of disrespect
To our own prodigal excess
Of too...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of i...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollecte...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sa...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of t...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on hig...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are n...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH From Stirling Castle we had seen
The mazy Forth unravelled;
Had trod the banks of Clyde and Ta...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The soft blue sky did never melt
Into his heart; he never felt
The witching of the soft blue s...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH But shapes that come not at an earthly call,
Will not depart when mortal voices bid.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Lady of the Mere,
Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
W...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH This flower that first appeared as summer's guest
Preserves her beauty 'mid autumnal leaves
An...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A maid whom there were none to ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Hail to thee, far above the rest
In joy of voice and pinion!
Thou, linnet! in thy green array...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The intellectual power, through words and things,
Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The feather, whence the pen
Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men,
Dropped from a...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Meek Walton's heavenly memory.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Methought I say the footsteps of a throne.
- William Wordsworth,
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be not forever taken from my sight,
Though...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The best portions of a good man's life, his little, nameless acts of kindness and love.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of l...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleam'd upon my sight;
A lovely apparition, sent...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!
Thou soul is the eternity of thought!
That giv'st to form...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast
False fires, that others may be lost.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Behold, within the leafy shade,
Those bright blue eggs together laid!
On me the chance-discove...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH My eyes are dim with childish tears,
My heart is idly stirred,
For the same sound is in my ear...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And she hath smiles to earth unknown--
Smiles that with motion of their own
Do spread, and sin...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A tale in everything.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne'er saw I...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee,
And was the safeguard of the West.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thou...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There's something in a flying horse,
There's something in a huge balloon.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And hark! how blithe the throstle sings!
He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the li...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears,
Hangs a thrush that sings loud, it has sung f...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH My brainWorked with a dim and undetermined senseOf unknown modes of being.
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A primrose by a river's brimA yellow primrose was to him,And it was nothing more.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Stern winter loves a dirge-like sound.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There is a comfort in the strength of love;'T will make a thing endurable, which elseWould overset t...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The cattle are grazing,Their heads never raising;There are forty feeding like one!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH No Nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands Of travelers in some shady haunt, Am...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird,Or but a wandering voice?
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And yet the wiser mind
Mourns less for what age takes away
Than what it leaves behind.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Be mild, and cleave to gentle things,
thy glory and thy happiness be there.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and goo...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular
way in which we have been ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH In ourselves our safety must be sought.
By our own right hand it must be wrought.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Provoke/ The years to bring the inevitable yoke.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie/ Couched on the bald top of an eminence.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is m...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Rest and be thankful.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Sensations sweet,Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH How men livedEven next-door neighbors, as we say, yet stillStrangers, not knowing each the other's n...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ...The happy Warrior... 'tis he whose law is reason; who depends upon that law as on the best of fri...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Tho...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of someth...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
S...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
T...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together . . . humble ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And now I see with eye sereneThe very pulse of the machine.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Beloved Vale, I said, When I shall con those many records of my childish years
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none;
Look up a second time, and, one by one,
...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The silence that is in the starry sky,
The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollect...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH We have within ourselves
Enough to fill the present day with joy,
And overspread the future ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;
And humble cares, and delicate fears;
A heart, the fount...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Sweet childish days, that were as long as twenty days are now
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And mighty poets in their misery dead.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH By our own spirits are we deified:We Poets in our youth begin in gladness;But thereof come in the en...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Fears and fancies thick upon me came.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH