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And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. (William Wordsworth)
Where music dwells Lingering and wandering on as loth to die, Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality. View quote
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Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up Fostered alike by beauty and by fear. View quote
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There is a comfort in the strength of love Twill make a thing endurable, which else Would overset the brain, or break the heart. View quote
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More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more more able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress. View quote
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The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite,a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm By thoughts supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye. View quote
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For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago. View quote
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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. View quote
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That heareth not the loud winds when they call, And moveth all together, if it moves at all. View quote
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But shapes that come not at an earthly call Will not depart when mortal voices bid. View quote
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Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science. (William Wordsworth)
A jolly place,' said he, 'in times of old But something ails it now the spot is cursed. View quote
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Like,but oh how different. View quote
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The gentle Lady married to the Moor, And heavenly Una with her milk-white lamb. View quote
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The grim shape; Towered up between me and the stars, and still, For so it seemed, with purpose of its own; And measured motion like a living thing, Strode after me. View quote
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A reasoning, self-sufficing thing, An intellectual all-in-all. View quote
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A living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed. View quote
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O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer thro' the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee! View quote
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Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go? Fresh as a lark mounting at break of day, Festively she puts forth in trim array. View quote
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O Blithe newcomer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice. O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice? View quote
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He sang of love, with quiet blending, Slow to begin, and never ending; Of serious faith, and inward glee; That was the song,-the song for me! (William Wordsworth)
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules, Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have wrought More for mankind at this unhappy day Then all the pride of intellect and thought? View quote
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And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare That kill the bloom before its time; And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair. View quote
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There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon; But through the clouds I'll never float Until I have a little Boat, Shaped like the crescent-moon. View quote
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Lives there a man whose sole delights Are trivial pomp and city noise, Hardening a heart that loathes or slights What every natural heart enjoys? View quote
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