John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
Page 476
William Wordsworth. (17701850) (continued)
5005 Another morn Risen on mid-noon. 1
The Prelude.Book vi .
5006 Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!
The Prelude.Book xi .
5007 The budding rose above the rose full blown.
The Prelude.Book xi .
5008 There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.
The Prelude.Book xi .
5009 Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain.
Character of the Happy Warrior .
5010 Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.
Character of the Happy Warrior .
5011 But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.
Character of the Happy Warrior .
5012 And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.
Character of the Happy Warrior .
5013 Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.
Character of the Happy Warrior .
5014 Like,but oh how different!
Yes, it was the Mountain Echo .
5015 The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
Miscellaneous Sonnets. Part i. xxxiii.
5016 Great God! I d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;