That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHThat inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHStrongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHAnd now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHWisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHThe flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHOur 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.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHAll that we behold is full of blessings.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHBy all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHGreat is the glory, for the strife is hard!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHBe mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHBut thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHA famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer’s joy.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHPleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHPoetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHThe softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHBut trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH