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“A Creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food;
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles.”

William Wordsworth

Stanza 2. <br class="br"> She Was a Phantom of Delight http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww259.html (1804)

“Who, doomed to go in company with Pain,
And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train!
Turns his necessity to glorious gain.”

William Wordsworth

Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 12.

“Often have I sighed to measure
By myself a lonely pleasure,—
Sighed to think I read a book,
Only read, perhaps, by me.”

William Wordsworth

To the Small Celandine.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Like—but oh, how different!”

William Wordsworth

Yes, It Was the Mountain Echo, st. 2 (1806).

“The budding rose above the rose full blown.”

William Wordsworth book The Prelude

Bk. XI, l. 121.
The Prelude (1799-1805)

“Where music dwells
Lingering and wandering on as loth to die,
Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof
That they were born for immortality.”

William Wordsworth

Part III, No. 43 - Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)

“Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore
Of nicely calculated less or more.”

William Wordsworth

Part III, No. 43 - Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)

“Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.”

William Wordsworth

Letter to Lady Beaumont (May 21, 1807).

“She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;
And humble cares, and delicate fears;
A heart, the fountain of sweet tears;
And love, and thought, and joy.”

William Wordsworth The Sparrow's Nest

The Sparrow's Nest, st. 2 (1801).

“A slumber did my spirit seal;
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.

No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,
With rocks, and stones, and trees.”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

“Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart:
Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
So didst thou travel on life's common way,
In cheerful godliness.”

William Wordsworth

London, 1802, l. 9 (1807).

“That heareth not the loud winds when they call,
And moveth all together, if it moves at all.”

William Wordsworth

Stanza 11.
Resolution and Independence (1807)

“But he is risen, a later star of dawn.”

William Wordsworth

A Morning Exercise.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Love had he found in huts where poor men lie;
His daily teachers had been woods and rills,
The silence that is in the starry sky,
The sleep that is among the lonely hills.”

William Wordsworth

Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, l. 161 (1807).

“Turning, for them who pass, the common dust
Of servile opportunity to gold.”

William Wordsworth

Desultory Stanza.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company.”

William Wordsworth

Stanza 3. <br class="br"> I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html (1804)

“Every gift of noble origin
Is breathed upon by Hope’s perpetual breath.”

William Wordsworth

These Times strike Monied Worldlings.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Every gift of noble origin
Is breathed upon by Hope’s perpetual breath.

“Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year;
And worship'st at the Temple's inner shrine,
God being with thee when we know it not.”

William Wordsworth

It Is a Beautious Evening, l. 12 (1807).

“Much converse do I find in thee,
Historian of my infancy!
Float near me; do not yet depart!
Dead times revive in thee:
Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art!
A solemn image to my heart.”

William Wordsworth

To a Butterfly (Stay Near Me), st. 1 (1801).

“But shapes that come not at an earthly call,
Will not depart when mortal voices bid.”

William Wordsworth

Dion, st. 5 (1814).