Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong.


William Wordsworth

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See! he sinks Without a word; and his ensanguined bier Is vacant in the west, while far and n...
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To whom thy secret thou dost tell, To him thy freedom thou dost sell
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Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant,...
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The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing.
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The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing.
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Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?
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Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.
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Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find The perfumes thou dost bring?
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Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.
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Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that...
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February, fill the dyke With what thou dost like.
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February, fill the dyke with what thou dost like.
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O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me.
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Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.
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Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?
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Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate.
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Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate
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Thou hast death in thy house, and dost bewaile anothers.
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When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
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Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor
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Thou dost not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed
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O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!
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As doth eternity...
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Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?
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Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought / As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
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The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
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Gentle Spring!--in sunshine clad, Well dost thou thy power display! For Winter maketh the ligh...
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Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that...
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Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea.
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O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
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O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.
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Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
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Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany! Thou ever strong upon t...
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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
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we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those...
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Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey? And why does thy nose look so blue?
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Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, ...
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Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
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Continuous as the stars that shine/ And twinkle on the milky way.
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so,
Fo...
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Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do? [Lat., Quid non mortalia pect...
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Speak to me as to thy thinkings,
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The w...
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Dost thou
Not feel them slip,
How cold! how cold! the moon's
Thin wavering finger-...
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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
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O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?
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O child! O new-born denizen Of life's great city! on thy head The glory of morn is shed, ...
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Why dost thou gaze upon the sky?
O that I were yon spangled sphere!
Then every star should b...
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
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Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars
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Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
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There's nothing wrong with shooting for the stars.
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All things that love the sun are out of doors.
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Strongest mindsAre often those of whom the noisy worldHears least.
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Fear not the things thou suffer must;
For, whom ...
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We live by admiration, hope and love; and even as these are well and wisely fixed, in dignity of bei...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
A primrose by a river's brimA yellow primrose was to him,And it was nothing more.
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Stern winter loves a dirge-like sound.
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There is a comfort in the strength of love;'T will make a thing endurable, which elseWould overset t...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, ...
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The cattle are grazing,Their heads never raising;There are forty feeding like one!
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Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar
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No Nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands Of travelers in some shady haunt, Am...
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In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
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O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird,Or but a wandering voice?
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And yet the wiser mind
Mourns less for what age takes away
Than what it leaves behind.
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Be mild, and cleave to gentle things,
thy glory and thy happiness be there.
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The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and goo...
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we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular
way in which we have been ...
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In ourselves our safety must be sought.
By our own right hand it must be wrought.
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Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
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Provoke/ The years to bring the inevitable yoke.
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As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie/ Couched on the bald top of an eminence.
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The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket
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The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is m...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Rest and be thankful.
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Sensations sweet,Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.
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How men livedEven next-door neighbors, as we say, yet stillStrangers, not knowing each the other's n...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset ...
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The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more.
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...The happy Warrior... 'tis he whose law is reason; who depends upon that law as on the best of fri...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Tho...
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I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of someth...
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poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge
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Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come
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Then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.
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My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
S...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.
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The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
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Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.
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What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
T...
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To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together . . . humble ...
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And now I see with eye sereneThe very pulse of the machine.
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Beloved Vale, I said, When I shall con those many records of my childish years
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Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none;
Look up a second time, and, one by one,
...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The silence that is in the starry sky,
The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollect...
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We have within ourselves
Enough to fill the present day with joy,
And overspread the future ...
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She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;
And humble cares, and delicate fears;
A heart, the fount...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in...
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Sweet childish days, that were as long as twenty days are now
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And mighty poets in their misery dead.
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By our own spirits are we deified:We Poets in our youth begin in gladness;But thereof come in the en...
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