All WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Quotes about “Earth”

“Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.”
“Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth.”
“The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.”
“There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.”
“Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.”
“Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever.”
“Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!”
“Earth helped him with the cry of blood.”
“A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.”
“A power is passing from the earth.”
“Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.”
“Earth has not anything to show more fair.”
“The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.”
“The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way.”
“In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.”
“Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?”
“A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be not unblest- compared With him who grovels, self-debarred From all that lies within the scope Of holy faith and christian hope; Or, shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.”
“In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.”

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