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Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.

Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.

William Wordsworth
Love, Winter, Sound
William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.183

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

William Wordsworth
Art, Wall, Artist

Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.

William Wordsworth
Sky, Way, Wheels
William Wordsworth (2014). “The Excursion and The Recluse”, p.34, Lulu.com

Death is the quiet haven of us all.

William Wordsworth
Death, Quiet, Havens
William Wordsworth (1855). “Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.179

Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

William Wordsworth
Dream, Fall, Men
1814 'The Excursion', preface, l.35-41.

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.

William Wordsworth
Sea, Forever, Mind
The Prelude bk. 3, l. 60 (1850)

In years that bring the philosophic mind.

William Wordsworth
Years, Mind, Philosophic
'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 10

Delivered from the galling yoke of time.

William Wordsworth
Time, Yoke
William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth:: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author. With Additional Poems, a New Preface, and a Supplementary Essay. In Two Volumes”, p.232

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

William Wordsworth
Sleep, Afterlife, Infancy Is
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

William Wordsworth
Stars, Boredom, Restless
William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.784, Wordsworth Editions

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

William Wordsworth
Wise, Wisest
William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.116

And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.

William Wordsworth
Heart, Men, Thinking
'Lines Written in Early Spring' (1798)

One of those heavenly days that cannot die.

William Wordsworth
Death, Heavenly, Dies
William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.142

A power is passing from the earth.

William Wordsworth
Power, Earth, Passing
'Lines on the Expected Dissolution of Mr Fox' (1807)

Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.

William Wordsworth
Noble, Nobility, Breaths
William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.214

We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.

William Wordsworth
Daisies, Thee, Wanted
William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.158, Wordsworth Editions

The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.

William Wordsworth
Sadness, Weight, Wonder
William Wordsworth (1857). “The Earlier Poems of William Wordsworth: Corrected as in the Latest Editions. With Preface, and Notes Showing the Text as it Stood in 1815”, p.194

Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.

William Wordsworth
Men, Self, Feels
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.314, Pearson Education

That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton.

William Wordsworth
Song, Divinity, Orbs
William Wordsworth (1985). “William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.

William Wordsworth
Happiness, Beautiful, Age
William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

William Wordsworth
Music, Sparks, Instinct
William Wordsworth (1852). “Complete Poetical Works”, p.137

The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.

William Wordsworth
Philosophy, Stubborn, Weight
William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.361

Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke.

William Wordsworth
Years, Yoke, Inevitable
'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 8

Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

William Wordsworth
Flower, Ballet, Saws
1804 'I wandered lonely as a cloud', stanza 2 (published 1807).

Small service is true service, while it lasts.

William Wordsworth
Lasts
William Wordsworth (1835). “Yarrow Revisited,: And Other Poems”, p.85

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