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William Wordsworth
Age: 80 †
Born: 1770
Born: April 7
Died: 1850
Died: April 23
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Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.
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Dreams, books, are each a world and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
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Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.
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Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.
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I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
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In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . .
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What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.
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The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky!
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The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone
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One solace yet remains for us who came Into this world in days when story lacked Severe research, that in our hearts we know How, for exciting youth's heroic flame, Assent is power, belief the soul of fact.
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Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?
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...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.
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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.
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For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
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Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!
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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
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[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.
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For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.
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Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.
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In years that bring the philosophic mind.
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