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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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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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The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.
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Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.
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Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen.
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Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind And worse, against ourselves.
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Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.
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By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!
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Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.
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Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.
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Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect
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Primroses, the Spring may love them Summer knows but little of them.
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Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
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A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride And still be not unblest- compared With him who grovels, self-debarred From all that lies within the scope Of holy faith and christian hope Or, shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.
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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
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Even thus last night, and two nights more I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep, by any stealth: So do not let me wear to-night away. Without thee what is all the morning's wealth? Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!
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Small service is true service, while it lasts.
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Then blame not those who, by the mightiest lever Known to the moral world, Imagination.
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The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.
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A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.
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Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
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