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• One of those heavenly days that cannot die.

  William Wordsworth

  Death, Heavenly, Dies

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.142

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• Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!

  William Wordsworth

  Spirit, Universe

  1799 'Influence of Natural Objects', l.1-4 (published in The Friend 28 Dec 1809).

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• The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.

  William Wordsworth

  Sadness, Weight, Wonder

  William Wordsworth (1857). “The Earlier Poems of William Wordsworth: Corrected as in the Latest Editions. With Preface, and Notes Showing the Text as it Stood in 1815”, p.194

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• Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke.

  William Wordsworth

  Years, Yoke, Inevitable

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 8

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• We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.

  William Wordsworth

  Daisies, Thee, Wanted

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.158, Wordsworth Editions

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• In years that bring the philosophic mind.

  William Wordsworth

  Years, Mind, Philosophic

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 10

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• Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

  William Wordsworth

  Sea, Forever, Mind

  The Prelude bk. 3, l. 60 (1850)

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• That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton.

  William Wordsworth

  Song, Divinity, Orbs

  William Wordsworth (1985). “William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

  William Wordsworth

  Sleep, Afterlife, Infancy Is

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.

  William Wordsworth

  Mother, Motherhood, Graves

  'A Poet's Epitaph' (1800)

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• Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Ballet, Saws

  1804 'I wandered lonely as a cloud', stanza 2 (published 1807).

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• With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Boredom, Restless

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.784, Wordsworth Editions

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• Small service is true service, while it lasts.

  William Wordsworth

  Lasts

  William Wordsworth (1835). “Yarrow Revisited,: And Other Poems”, p.85

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• And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

  William Wordsworth

  Wise, Wisest

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.116

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• A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Beautiful, Age

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

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• The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

  William Wordsworth

  Lying, Flower, Heart

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 11

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• To be young was very heaven!

  William Wordsworth

  Heaven, Youth, Young

  "The French Revolution, as It Appeared to Enthusiasts" l. 4 (1809). The same lines appear in Wordsworth's The Prelude, bk. 9, l. 108 (1850).

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• The homely beauty of the good old cause
  Is gone

  William Wordsworth

  Loss, Purpose, Gone

  "Written in London. September, 1802" l. 11 (1807)

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• Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Glory

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 4

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• Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

  William Wordsworth

  Compassion, Tears, Ends

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.102

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• Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Poetry, Behinds

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• Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Self, Feels

  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.314, Pearson Education

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• Truth takes no account of centuries.

  William Wordsworth

  Truth, Century, Accounts

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• A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave!

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Slave, Should

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.97

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• Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Blow, Moon

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.194

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