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Own Quotes by William Wordsworth
- Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security.
- I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can…
- Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And…
- The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.
- I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following…
- Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.
- He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.
- The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no…
- I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue, but…
- The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be…
- What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,…
- In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
- I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can…
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