The Solitary Reaper, st. 4.
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland (1803)
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“Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.”
The Tables Turned, st. 4 (1798).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
Actually Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood (1857)
Misattributed
Scorn Not the Sonnet, l. 1 (1827).
Lines (1795)
Context: If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms
Of young imagination have kept pure
Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know that pride,
Howe'er disguised in its own majesty,
Is littleness; that he who feels contempt
For any living thing, hath faculties
Which he has never used; that thought with him
Is in its infancy. The man whose eye
Is ever on himself doth look on one,
The least of Nature's works, one who might move
The wise man to that scorn which wisdom holds
Unlawful, ever. O be wiser, thou!
Instructed that true knowledge leads to love;
True dignity abides with him alone
Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,
Can still suspect, and still revere himself,
In lowliness of heart.
Stanza 1.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html (1804)
Source: I Wander'd Lonely as a Cloud
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
Letter to his Wife (April 29 1812).
“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.”
Source: The Excursion 1814
Rob Roy's Grave, st. 3.
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland (1803)
Stanza 3.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)
Context: And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought,
With many recognitions dim and faint,
And somewhat of a sad perplexity,
The picture of the mind revives again:
While here I stand, not only with the sense
Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts
That in this moment there is life and food
For future years. And so I dare to hope,
Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first
I came among these hills;
“A living thing
Produced too slowly ever to decay;
Of form and aspect too magnificent
To be destroyed.”
Yew-Trees, l. 9 (1803).
Context: Of vast circumference and gloom profound,
This solitary Tree! A living thing
Produced too slowly ever to decay;
Of form and aspect too magnificent
To be destroyed.
The River Duddon, sonnet 34 - Afterthought, l. 13 (1820).
Stanza 4.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)
Context: If I should be, where I no more can hear
Thy voice, nor catch from thy wild eyes these gleams
Of past existence, wilt thou then forget
That on the banks of this delightful stream
We stood together; And that I, so long
A worshipper of Nature, hither came,
Unwearied in that service: rather say
With warmer love, oh! with far deeper zeal
Of holier love. Now wilt thou then forget,
That after many wanderings, many years
Of absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs,
And this green pastoral landscape, were to me
More dear, both for themselves, and for thy sake.
Preface.
Source: Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
“The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more.”
Source: Great Narrative Poems Of The Romantic Age