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"To be a Prodigal's favourite,--then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,--behold our lot!"
The Small Celandine.
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"Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!"
Ode to Duty.
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"A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove."
Ode to Duty.
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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!"
Ode to Duty.
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"The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream."
Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm. Stanza 4.
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"Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made."
To a Young Lady. Dear Child of Nature.
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"But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave."
To a Young Lady. Dear Child of Nature.
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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."
The Prelude. Book iii.
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"Another morn Risen on mid-noon."
The Prelude. Book vi.
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"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!"
The Prelude. Book xi.
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"The budding rose above the rose full blown."
The Prelude. Book xi.
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"There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead."
The Prelude. Book xi.
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"Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,--miserable train!-- Turns his necessity to glorious gain."
Character of the Happy Warrior.
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"Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives."
Character of the Happy Warrior.
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"But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover."
Character of the Happy Warrior.
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"And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw."
Character of the Happy Warrior.
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"Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray."
Character of the Happy Warrior.
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"Like,--but oh how different!"
Yes, it was the Mountain Echo.
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"The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours."
Miscellaneous Sonnets. Part i. xxxiii.
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"Great God! I 'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn."
Miscellaneous Sonnets. Part i. xxxiii.
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"Maidens withering on the stalk."
Personal Talk. Stanza 1.
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"Sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet."
Personal Talk. Stanza 2.
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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."
Personal Talk. Stanza 3.
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"The gentle Lady married to the Moor, And heavenly Una with her milk-white lamb."
Personal Talk. Stanza 3.
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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."
Personal Talk. Stanza 4.
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"A power is passing from the earth."
Lines on the expected Dissolution of Mr. Fox.
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"The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose."
Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 2.
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"The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth."
Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 2.
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"Where is it now, the glory and the dream?"
Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 5.
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"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory, do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy."
Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 5.
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"At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day."
Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 5.
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"The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction."
Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 9.
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"Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings, Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised."
Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 9.
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"Truths that wake, To perish never."
Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 9.
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"Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither."
Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 9.
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"Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower."
Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 10.
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"In years that bring the philosophic mind."
Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 10.
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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."
Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 11.
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"To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."
Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 11.
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"Two voices are there: one is of the sea, One of the mountains,--each a mighty voice."
Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland.
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"Earth helped him with the cry of blood."
Song at the Feast of Broughton Castle.
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"The silence that is in the starry sky."
Song at the Feast of Broughton Castle.
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"The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height."
The White Doe of Rylstone. Canto iii.
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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?"
Force of Prayer.
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"A few strong instincts, and a few plain rules."
Alas! what boots the long laborious Quest?
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"Of blessed consolations in distress."
Preface to the Excursion. (Edition, 1814.)
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"The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse."
The Excursion. Book i.
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"The imperfect offices of prayer and praise."
The Excursion. Book i.
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"That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton."
The Excursion. Book i.
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"The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket."
The Excursion. Book i.
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