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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.

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.

William Wordsworth
Fear, Future, Past
William Wordsworth (1855). “Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.187

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).

What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot!

William Wordsworth
Fear, Voice, Whispering
William Wordsworth (1827). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.114

When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?

William Wordsworth
Country, Fear, Men
William Wordsworth (1851). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ...”, p.255

Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain.

William Wordsworth
Pain, Fear, Gains
William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author”, p.87

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