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The marble index of a mind forever
Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love;
And, even as these are well and wisely fixed,
In dignity of being we ascend.
Oh for a single hour of that Dundee
Who on that day the word of onset gave!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Babylon,
Learned and wise, hath perished utterly,
Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh
That would lament her.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)
How fast has brother followed brother,
From sunshine to the sunless land!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
He murmurs near the running brooks
A music sweeter than their own.
A Poet's Epitaph (1799)
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1804)
Society became my glittering bride,
And airy hopes my children.
The Excursion (1814)
And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine.
She Was a Phantom of Delight (1804)
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?
Resolution and Independence (1807)
A light to guide, a rod
To check the erring, and reprove.
Ode to Duty (1805)
May no rude hand deface it,
And its forlorn Hic jacet!
Lyrical Ballads (1798)
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1804)
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?
Lyrical Ballads (1798)
He sang of love, with quiet blending,
Slow to begin, and never ending;
Of serious faith, and inward glee;
That was the song,—the song for me!
She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;
And humble cares,and delicate fears;
A heart, the fountain of sweet tears;
And love, and thought, and joy.
Nature never did betray
The Heart that Loved her.
That inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1804)
A Creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food;
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles.
She Was a Phantom of Delight (1804)
"What is good for a bootless bene?"
With these dark words begins my tale;
And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring
When prayer is of no avail?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)