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Upon Quotes by William Wordsworth
- One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.
- Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear…
- I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To…
- The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.
- Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?
- Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial.
- In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . .
- 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…
- And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory…
- But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is…
- Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.
- 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…
- Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl…
- Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with…
- And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life…
- Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises.
- Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put…
- For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of…
- Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
More Upon Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood