The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift. William Wordsworth More Quotes by William Wordsworth More Quotes From William Wordsworth Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow! William Wordsworth lakes home sweet The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way! William Wordsworth intellect intellectual way A deep distress has humanised my soul. William Wordsworth distress my-soul soul Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark. William Wordsworth sparks instinct music He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own. William Wordsworth brooks music running The weight of sadness was in wonder lost. William Wordsworth sadness weight wonder Then blame not those who, by the mightiest lever William Wordsworth levers imagination world O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything. William Wordsworth stores silent mind In years that bring the philosophic mind. William Wordsworth philosophic mind years Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet. William Wordsworth distance music sweet Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood. William Wordsworth battle wise brain The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions. William Wordsworth time past years To be young was very heaven! William Wordsworth youth young heaven "One impulse from a vernal wood William Wordsworth woods nature tree Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound. William Wordsworth cups secret profound A power is passing from the earth. William Wordsworth passing power earth Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. William Wordsworth sea mind forever A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven. William Wordsworth youth earth heaven The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells. William Wordsworth mind beautiful men In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. William Wordsworth money business men