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We live by admiration, hope and love.

William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth
Age: 80 †
Born: 1770
Born: April 7
Died: 1850
Died: April 23
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Cockermouth
Cumbria
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And what if thou, sweet May, hast known Mishap by worm and blight If expectations newly blown Have perished in thy sight If loves and joys, while up they sprung, Were caught as in a snare Such is the lot of all the young, However bright and fair.
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my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion.
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The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!
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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.
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We murder to dissect.
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The mysteries that cups of flowers infold And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold.
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Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy.
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Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains and of all that we behold from this green earth.
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The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.
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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few.
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And mighty poets in their misery dead.
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That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.
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