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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.

The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

William Wordsworth
Sunshine, Earth, Passed Away
'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 1

I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How motionless! - not frozen seas More motionless! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you forth again!

William Wordsworth
Flower, Sleep, Butterfly
William Wordsworth, Stephen Gill (2000). “The Major Works”, p.254, Oxford University Press, USA

His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.

William Wordsworth
Light, Inward, Path
'Character of the Happy Warrior' (1807)

Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself - no helper hast thou here - Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can divide with thee this work, No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else 'tis not thine at all.

William Wordsworth
Fashion, Men, Hands
William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.1104, Delphi Classics

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

William Wordsworth
Life, Death, Children
'We are Seven' (1798) (the words 'dear brother Jim' were omitted in the 1815 edition of his poems)

And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.

William Wordsworth
Soul, Tasks, Height
'The Excursion' (1814) bk. 4, l. 136

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

William Wordsworth
Youth, Madness, Poet
"Resolution and Independence" l. 43 (1807)

Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.

William Wordsworth
Influence
William Wordsworth (1849). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.371

...one interior life in which all beings live with God, themselves are God, existing in the mighty whole, indistinguishable as the cloudless east is from the cloudless west, when all the hemisphere is one cerulean blue.

William Wordsworth
God, Blue, East
William Wordsworth (1850). “The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem”, [s.n.]

Meek Walton's heavenly memory.

William Wordsworth
Memories, Meek, Heavenly
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.306

The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts.

William Wordsworth
Sick, Lovers, Fit
William Wordsworth (2009). “The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth Series”, p.147, Humanities-Ebooks

Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.

William Wordsworth
Mind, Littles, Perceive
William Wordsworth (1849). “The poetical works of William Wordsworth”, p.167

To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!

William Wordsworth
Truth, Favourite, Misers
William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.428

Then blame not those who, by the mightiest lever Known to the moral world, Imagination.

William Wordsworth
Imagination, World, Levers
"The Poems of William Wordsworth".

Stop thinking for once in your life!

William Wordsworth
Thinking

Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men.

William Wordsworth
Men, Choices, Ordinary
'Resolution and Independence' (1807) st. 14

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

William Wordsworth
Death, Summer, Heart
'The Excursion' (1814) bk. 1, l. 500

I'm not talking about a "show me other walls of this thing" button, I mean a "stumble" button for wallbase.

William Wordsworth
Wall, Mean, Talking

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.

William Wordsworth
Happiness, Issues, Heaven
William Wordsworth (1849). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.371

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.

William Wordsworth
Death, Eye, Men
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.389

We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.

William Wordsworth
God, Men, Names
William Wordsworth (1849). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.252

Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

William Wordsworth
Hope, Men, Suffering
William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.164

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

William Wordsworth
Death, Misery, Poet
'Resolution and Independence' (1807) st. 17

Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth
Poetry, Outcomes, Emotion

Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.

William Wordsworth
Simple, Simplicity, Should
'Rob Roy's Grave' from 'Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803'

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