William Wordsworth Quotes
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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?
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Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.
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True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.
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Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.
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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.
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
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And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.
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Hope smiled when your nativity was cast, Children of Summer!
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I'm not talking about a "show me other walls of this thing" button, I mean a "stumble" button for wallbase.
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We murder to dissect.
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But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
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Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?
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Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?
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A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
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Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen.
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By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!
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Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
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The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
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She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.
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To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
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The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.
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The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink I heard a voice it said Drink, pretty creature, drink'
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Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.
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He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.