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William Wordsworth on Easter

1770–1850 England

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And 't is my faith, that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

But who would force the soul tilts with a straw
Against a champion cased in adamant.

Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)

For the gods approve
The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.

Laodamia (1814)

Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower,
We feel that we are greater than we know.

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!

Of one in whom persuasion and belief
Had ripened into faith, and faith become
A passionate intuition.

The Excursion (1814)

There littleness was not; the least of things
Seemed infinite; and there his spirit shaped
Her prospects, nor did he believe,—He saw.

The Excursion (1814)

'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower
Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind
Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower,
And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Is Man
A child of hope? Do generations press
On generations, without progress made?
Halts the individual, ere his hairs be gray,
Perforce?

The Excursion (1814)

Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither.

One solace yet remains for us who came
Into this world in days when story lacked
Severe research, that in our hearts we know
How, for exciting youth's heroic flame,
Assent is power, belief the soul of fact.

Memorials of a Tour in Italy (1837)

Hopes; what are they?—Beads of morning
Strung on slender blades of grass;
Or a spider's web adorning
In a straight and treacherous pass.

From the sweet thoughts of home
And from all hope I was forever hurled.
For me—farthest from earthly port to roam
Was best, could I but shun the spot where man might come.

Lyrical Ballads (1798)

Intimations of Immortality
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar.

Faith is a passionate intuition

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