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William Wordsworth
Age: 80 †
Born: 1770
Born: April 7
Died: 1850
Died: April 23
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This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.
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The memory of the just survives in Heaven.
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On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.
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There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.
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We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
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Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.
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On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude
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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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Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
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May books and nature be their early joy!
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The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow
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Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
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I've watched you now a full half-hour Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How motionless! - not frozen seas More motionless! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you forth again!
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Then blame not those who, by the mightiest lever Known to the moral world, Imagination.
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Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.
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Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
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Nature's old felicities.
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Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.
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There is creation in the eye.
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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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