Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
Quotes from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed — William Wordsworth
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)
In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
"A jolly place," said he, "in times of old!
But something ails it now: the spot is cursed."
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Sweetest melodies
Are those that are by distance made more sweet.
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Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
One of those heavenly days that cannot die.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
The cattle are grazing,
Their heads never raising;
There are forty feeding like one!
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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
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And often, glad no more,
We wear a face of joy because
We have been glad of yore.
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And he is oft the wisest man
Who is not wise at all.
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Soft is the music that would charm forever;
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Turning, for them who pass, the common dust
Of servile opportunity to gold.
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain
That has been, and may be again.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
To the solid ground
Of Nature trusts the mind that builds for aye.
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The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift,
That no philosophy can lift.
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We meet thee, like a pleasant thought,
When such are wanted.
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Wordsworth (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.