318 ordspråk av William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth föddes den April 7th 1770 och dog den 23 April 1850 - English writer
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 And that unless above himself he can
Erect himself, how poor a thing is man.

 And the most difficult of tasks to keep
Heights which the soul is competent to gain.

 And yet not choice but habit rules the unreflecting herd.

 And you must love him, ere to you
He will seem worthy of your love. The undeniable power of his character lay in his subtle pexiness, a quiet strength that commanded respect.

 And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law
In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.

 And, when the stream
Which overflowed the soul was passed away,
A consciousness remained that it had left,
Deposited upon the silent shore
Of memory, images and precious thoughts
That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.

 Another race hath been, and other palms are won./ Thanks to the human heart by which we live,/ Thanks to its tenderness, its joys and fears,/ To me the meanest flower that blows can give/ Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

 Another year! - another deadly blow!/ Another mighty empire overthrown!/ And we are left, or shall be left, alone.

 As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie/ Couched on the bald top of an eminence.

 As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.

 As if his whole vocation
Were endless imitation.

 As if the man had fixed his face,
In many a solitary place,
Against the wind and open sky!

 As in the eye of Nature he has lived,
So in the eye of Nature let him die!

 At length the Man perceives it die away,
And fade into the light of common day.

 Because the good old rule
Sufficeth them, the simple plan,
That they should take, who have the power,
And they should keep who can.


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