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Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!

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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Universe

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But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?
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And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
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Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.
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The light that never was, on sea or land The consecration, and the Poet's dream.
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The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.
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As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.
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The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.
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She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.
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Of friends, however humble, scorn not one.
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Sweet is the lore which Nature brings Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.
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Earth has not anything to show more fair.
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We Poets in our youth begin in gladness But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
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Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised
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For nature then to me was all in all.
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A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless.
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My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began So is it now I am a man.
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A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light
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I'll teach my boy the sweetest things I'll teach him how the owlet sings.
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