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Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar. - The Excursion (bk. III, l. 232) [Wisdom] Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. - The Excursion (bk. III, l. 377) [Wrong] And to tired limbs and over-busy thoughts, Inviting sleep and soft forgetfulness. - The Excursion (bk. IV) [Sleep] There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. - The Excursion (bk. IV) [Self-examination] Rapaciously we gathered flowery spoils From land and water; lilies of each hue,-- Golden and white, that float upon the waves, And court the wind. - The Excursion (bk. IX, l. 540) [Water Lilies] And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore. - The Fountain [Joy] My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. - The Fountain [Sound] Thus fares it still in our decay, And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. - The Fountain (st. 9) [Age] Hail to thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion! Thou, linnet! in thy green array, Presiding spirit here to-day, Dost lead the revels of the May; And this is thy dominion. - The Green Linnet [Linnets] The streams with softest sound flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can. - The Idiot Boy (st. 57) [Nature] The bane of all that dread the Devil! - The Idiot Boy (st. 67) [Devil] A remnant of uneasy light. - The Matron of Jedborough, and Her Husband [Light] And he is oft the wisest man Who is not wise at all. - The Oak and the Broom [Wisdom] Men who can hear the Decalogue and fell No self-reproach. - The Old Cumberland Beggar (l. 136) [Conscience] As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die! - The Old Cumberland Beggar (last lines) [Nature] Drink, pretty creature, drink! - The Pet Lamb [Drinking] The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. - The Prelude (bk. III) [Sculpture] Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very Heaven! - The Prelude (bk. XI) [Youth] There is One great society along on earth: The noble Living and the noble Dead. - The Prelude (bk. XI) [Society] Art thou the bird whom Man loves best, The pious bird with the scarlet breast, Our little English Robin; The bird that comes about our doors When autumn winds are sobbing? - The Redbreast Chasing the Butterfly [Robins] There bloomed the strawberry of the wilderness; The trembling eyebright showed her sapphire blue, The thyme her purple, like the blush of Even; And if the breath of some to no caress Invited, forth they peeped so fair to view, All kinds alike seemed favourites of Heaven. - The River Duddon--Flowers (VI) [Flowers] To be a Prodigal's favourite,--then worse truth, A Miser's Pensioner,--behold our lot! - The Small Celandine [Destiny] For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago. - The Solitary Reaper [Past] Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been and may be again. - The Solitary Reaper [Sorrow] The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. - The Solitary Reaper [Music] Displaying page 11 of 14 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [11] 12 13 14
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