William Wordsworth
From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.Collection: Forgiveness
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.Collection: Stars
Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.Collection: Mean
... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.Collection: Stars
There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.Collection: Love
For all things are less dreadful than they seem.Collection: Perspective
Habit rules the unreflecting herd.Collection: Reflection
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.Collection: Sympathy
Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.Collection: Life
A tale in everything.Collection: Tales
Far from the world I walk, and from all care.Collection: Life
What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.Collection: Nature
The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrowCollection: Children
A brotherhood of venerable trees.Collection: Brother
Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.Collection: Dream
Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.Collection: Happiness
Rest and be thankful.Collection: Being Thankful
The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.Collection: Beautiful
The memory of the just survives in Heaven.Collection: Memories
One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.Collection: Soul
Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security.Collection: Uplifting
Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.Collection: Autumn
A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.Collection: Cheerful
Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.Collection: Action
Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.Collection: Opportunity
One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.Collection: Mother
Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.Collection: Sweet
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!Collection: Sweet
I'll teach my boy the sweetest things; I'll teach him how the owlet sings.Collection: Boys
The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.Collection: Death
Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan.Collection: Pagan
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.Collection: Love
Delivered from the galling yoke of time.Collection: Time
Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.Collection: Compassion
There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.Collection: Life
Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.Collection: Simple
To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!Collection: Truth
Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?Collection: Nature
At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.Collection: Men
As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!Collection: Life
Primroses, the Spring may love them; Summer knows but little of them.Collection: Summer
Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen.Collection: Brother
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.Collection: Life