John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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William Wordsworth. (1770–1850) (continued) |
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Another morn Risen on mid-noon. 1 |
The Prelude.Book vi. |
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Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! |
The Prelude.Book xi. |
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The budding rose above the rose full blown. |
The Prelude.Book xi. |
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There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead. |
The Prelude.Book xi. |
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Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,—miserable train!— Turns his necessity to glorious gain. |
Character of the Happy Warrior. |
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Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives. |
Character of the Happy Warrior. |
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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 happy as a lover. |
Character of the Happy Warrior. |
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And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw. |
Character of the Happy Warrior. |
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Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray. |
Character of the Happy Warrior. |
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Like,—but oh how different! |
Yes, it was the Mountain Echo. |
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. |
Miscellaneous Sonnets. Part i. xxxiii. |
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Great God! I ’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; |
Note 1. See Milton, Quotation 132. [back] |