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I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England did I know till then; What love I bore to thee. (William Wordsworth)
Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream. View quote
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Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men. View quote
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The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive. View quote
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And 't is my faith, that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes. View quote
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Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark. View quote
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Earth helped him with the cry of blood. View quote
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One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave. View quote
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A power is passing from the earth. View quote
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The budding rose above the rose full blown. View quote
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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. (William Wordsworth)
How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land. View quote
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Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. View quote
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One of those heavenly days that cannot die. View quote
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Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound. View quote
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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. View quote
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Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives. View quote
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And mighty poets in their misery dead. View quote
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She gave me eyes, she gave me ears And humble cares, and delicate fears A heart, the fountain of sweet tears And love and thought and joy. View quote
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Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound. View quote
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We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted. (William Wordsworth)
To be a Prodigal's favourite,then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,behold our lot. View quote
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Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays. View quote
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'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. View quote
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The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled And Shakespeare at his side,a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world. View quote
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