Stanza 2.
Source: Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)
Context: These beauteous forms,
Through a long absence, have not been to me
As is a landscape to a blind man's eye:
But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din
Of towns and cities, I have owed to them,
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart;
And passing even into my purer mind,
With tranquil restoration:—feelings too
Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps,
As have no slight or trivial influence
On that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love. Nor less, I trust,
To them I may have owed another gift,
Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood,
In which the burthen of the mystery,
In which the heavy and the weary weight
Of all this unintelligible world
Is lighten'd:—that serene and blessed mood,
In which the affections gently lead us on,—
Until, the breath of this corporeal frame
And even the motion of our human blood
Almost suspended, we are laid asleep
In body, and become a living soul:
While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.
William Wordsworth: Man
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Actually Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood (1857)
Misattributed
The Tables Turned, st. 6 (1798).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
“The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.”
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold, (1802)
The last three lines of this form the introductory lines of the long Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood begun the next day.
Context: My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
“A noticeable man, with large gray eyes.”
Stanzas written in Thomson's Castle of Indolence.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Lines (1795)
“A famous man is Robin Hood,
The English ballad-singer's joy.”
Rob Roy's Grave, st. 1.
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland (1803)
“Until a man might travel twelve stout miles,
Or reap an acre of his neighbor's corn.”
The Brothers.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Preface.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
To Toussaint L'Ouverture, l. 12 (1807).
“Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?”
Source: Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines Written in Early Spring, st. 6 (1798).
“Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he
That every man in arms should wish to be?”
Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 1.
Ode. Imagination before Content.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And he is oft the wisest man
Who is not wise at all.”
The Oak and the Broom.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)