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Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.

Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.

William Wordsworth
Soul, Anon, Breeze
William Wordsworth (1849). “The poetical works of William Wordsworth”, p.136

To be young was very heaven!

William Wordsworth
Heaven, Youth, Young
"The French Revolution, as It Appeared to Enthusiasts" l. 4 (1809). The same lines appear in Wordsworth's The Prelude, bk. 9, l. 108 (1850).

How is it that you live, and what is it you do?

William Wordsworth
Life, Work
'Resolution and Independence' (1807) st. 17

Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

William Wordsworth
Compassion, Tears, Ends
William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.102

Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

William Wordsworth
Dream, Glory
'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 4

One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.

William Wordsworth
Mother, Motherhood, Graves
'A Poet's Epitaph' (1800)

Truth takes no account of centuries.

William Wordsworth
Truth, Century, Accounts

Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!

William Wordsworth
Spirit, Universe
1799 'Influence of Natural Objects', l.1-4 (published in The Friend 28 Dec 1809).

Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.

William Wordsworth
War, Army, Snow
William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author”, p.9

The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone

William Wordsworth
Loss, Purpose, Gone
"Written in London. September, 1802" l. 11 (1807)

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

William Wordsworth
Sweet, Poetry, Behinds

Departing summer hath assumed An aspect tenderly illumed, The gentlest look of spring; That calls from yonder leafy shade Unfaded, yet prepared to fade, A timely carolling.

William Wordsworth
Summer, Spring, Looks
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.358

The child is the father of man.

William Wordsworth
Children, Father, Men

Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.

William Wordsworth
Pain, Loss, Sorrow
'The Solitary Reaper' from 'Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803'

Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.

William Wordsworth
Nature, Blow, Moon
William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.194

My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they pass, I question things and do not find, one that will answer to my mind, And all the world appears unkind.

William Wordsworth
Fear, Clouds, Anxiety
1804 'The Affliction of Margaret', stanza 10 (published 1807).

Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.

William Wordsworth
Ideas, Immortality, Proof
William Wordsworth, “Inside Of King's College Chapel, Cambridge”

But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?

William Wordsworth
Squares, Splits, Intellect
William Wordsworth (1970). “The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (text of 1805)”, p.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

William Wordsworth
Home, Cooking, Tables
William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.87

To the solid ground Of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye.

William Wordsworth
Nature, Science, Mind
"The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth".

That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone!

William Wordsworth
Stars, Self, Shadow
1844 'So fair so sweet', stanza 2 (published 1845).

A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave!

William Wordsworth
Love, Slave, Should
William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.97

Dreams, books, are each a world.

William Wordsworth
Dream, Book, World
William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.368

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

William Wordsworth
Life, Angel, Men
William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.327

Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!

William Wordsworth
Eye, Men, Echoes
William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.850, Wordsworth Editions

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