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Whom neither shape of danger can dismay,
Nor thought of tender happiness betray.
Character of the Happy Warrior (1806)
Every gift of noble origin
Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.
The harvest of a quiet eye,
That broods and sleeps on his own heart.
A Poet's Epitaph (1799)
Choice word and measured phrase, above the reach
Of ordinary men.
Resolution and Independence (1807)
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.
Lyrical Ballads (1798)
For the gods approve
The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.
Laodamia (1814)
And he is oft the wisest man
Who is not wise at all.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.
On Revisiting the Banks of Wye (1798)
Plain living and high thinking are no more.
The imperfect offices of prayer and praise.
Something between a hindrance and a help.
Lyrical Ballads (1798)
Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
The Excursion (1814)
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;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
Lyrical Ballads (1798)
How does the Meadow-flower its bloom unfold?
Because the lovely little flower is free
Down to its root, and, in that freedom, bold.
Thou, while thy babes around thee cling,
Shalt show us how divine a thing
A Woman may be made.
But an old age serene and bright,
And lovely as a Lapland night,
Shall lead thee to thy grave.
Enough, if something from our hands have power
To live, and act, and serve the future hour.
Soft is the music that would charm forever;
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)