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• The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Hair, Grey

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.152

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• But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Birthday, Time

  'To a Young Lady' (1802)

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• And what if thou, sweet May, hast known
  Mishap by worm and blight;
  If expectations newly blown
  Have perished in thy sight;
  If loves and joys, while up they sprung,
  Were caught as in a snare;
  Such is the lot of all the young,
  However bright and fair.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Sight, Expectations

  William Wordsworth (2009). “The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth Series”, p.599, Humanities-Ebooks

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• One solace yet remains for us who came Into this world in days when story lacked Severe research, that in our hearts we know How, for exciting youth's heroic flame, Assent is power, belief the soul of fact.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Flames, Soul

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.359, Wordsworth Editions

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• As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear
  Into the Avon, Avon to the tide
  Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,
  Into main ocean they, this deed accursed
  An emblem yields to friends and enemies
  How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified
  By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.

  William Wordsworth

  Friendship, Teacher, Truth

  "Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)". Part II, No. 17. "The Ecclesiastical sonnets of William Wordsworth", edited by Abbie Findlay Potts, archive.org. 1922.

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• Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?

  William Wordsworth

  Remembrance, Faithful, Mind

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.184

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• Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Lying, Boys

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

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• There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

  William Wordsworth

  Grateful, Self, Luxury

  William Wordsworth (1814). “The Excursion,: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem”, p.162

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• Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!

  William Wordsworth

  Wise, Sacrifice, Light

  William Wordsworth (1849). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.371

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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!

  William Wordsworth

  Prayer, Office, Mind

  William Wordsworth (1859). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc”, p.11

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• "What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?

  William Wordsworth

  Prayer, Spring, Dark

  William Wordsworth (2009). “The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth Series”, p.632, Humanities-Ebooks

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• Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. * * * * * Then, little Bird, this boon confer, Come, and my requiem sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting spring.

  William Wordsworth

  Spring, Farewell, Bird

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• Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he
  That every man in arms should wish to be?
  It is the generous spirit, who, when brought
  Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought
  Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought:
  Whose high endeavors are an inward light
  That makes the path before him always bright:
  Who, with a natural instinct to discern
  What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn;
  And in himself posses his own desire

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Real, Warrior

  'Character of the Happy Warrior' (1807)

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• On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Moving, Scene

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.197

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• That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Hair, Crime

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.71

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• The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Sleep, Eye

  'A Poet's Epitaph' (1800)

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• Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave.

  William Wordsworth

  Accomplishment, Imperfection, Vain

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 1, l. 265

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• Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.

  William Wordsworth

  Water, England, Needs

  "London, 1802" l. 1 (1807)

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• It is the 1st mild day of March. Each minute sweeter than before... there is a blessing in the air.

  William Wordsworth

  Blessing, Air, March

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• Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Dream, Strong

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.140

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• Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Historical, Dear

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.274

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• Even thus last night, and two nights more I lay,
  And could not win thee, Sleep, by any stealth:
  So do not let me wear to-night away.
  Without thee what is all the morning's wealth?
  Come, blessed barrier between day and day,
  Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!

  William Wordsworth

  Mother, Dream, Morning

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.181

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• Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial.

  William Wordsworth

  Brother, Rocks, Brotherhood

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.2339, Delphi Classics

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• O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?

  William Wordsworth

  Voice, Bird, Cuckoos

  'To the Cuckoo' (O blithe new-comer!, 1807)

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• ...one interior life in which all beings live with God, themselves are God, existing in the mighty whole, indistinguishable as the cloudless east is from the cloudless west, when all the hemisphere is one cerulean blue.

  William Wordsworth

  God, Blue, East

  William Wordsworth (1850). “The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem”, [s.n.]

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