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The memory of the just survives in Heaven.

The memory of the just survives in Heaven.

William Wordsworth
Memories, Heaven
William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.863, Wordsworth Editions

Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

William Wordsworth
Wise, Home, Heaven
'To a Skylark' (Ethereal minstrel!, 1827)

In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.

William Wordsworth
Sadness, Heaven, Sorrow
William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.215

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.

William Wordsworth
Generosity, Giving, Heaven
William Wordsworth, “Inside Of King's College Chapel, Cambridge”

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.

William Wordsworth
Time, Sea, Heaven
1802 'It is a beauteous evening calm and free', l.1-8 (published 1807).

A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.

William Wordsworth
Heaven, Earth, Youth
William Wordsworth (1835). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc”, p.88

Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

William Wordsworth
Baby, Lying, Heaven
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

William Wordsworth
Islands, Heaven, World
'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 11, l. 140

I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue, but is now become A tempest, a redundant energy, Vexing its own creation.

William Wordsworth
Sweet, Heaven, Body
1799-1805 The Prelude, bk.1, l.33-8 (published 1850).

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).

Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."

William Wordsworth
Heaven, Silence, Silent
William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.603

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

Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.

William Wordsworth
Heaven, Dawn, Alive
"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).

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