John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Wordsworth. (1770–1850) (continued) |
| 5027 |
| At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. |
| Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 5. |
| 5028 |
| The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction. |
| Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 9. |
| 5029 |
| Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings, Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised. |
| Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 9. |
| 5030 |
| Truths that wake, To perish never. |
| Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 9. |
| 5031 |
| Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither. |
| Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 9. |
| 5032 |
| Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. |
| Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 10. |
| 5033 |
| In years that bring the philosophic mind. |
| Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 10. |
| 5034 |
| The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o’er man’s mortality. |
| Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 11. |
| 5035 |
| To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. |
| Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 11. |
| 5036 |
| Two voices are there: one is of the sea, One of the mountains,—each a mighty voice. |
| Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland. |
| 5037 |
| Earth helped him with the cry of blood. 1 |
| Song at the Feast of Broughton Castle. |
| 5038 |
| The silence that is in the starry sky. |
| Ibid. |
| Note 1. This line is from Sir John Beaumont’s “Battle of Bosworth Field.” [back] |