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William Wordsworth
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William Wordsworth
Age: 80 †
Born: 1770
Born: April 7
Died: 1850
Died: April 23
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As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.
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What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot!
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Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?
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The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!
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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
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And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore.
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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.
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Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.
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Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.
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The unconquerable pang of despised love.
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How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!
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Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!
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And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
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In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
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We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
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Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
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