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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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William Wordsworth. (1770–1850) (continued)
 
5101
    Alas! how little can a moment show
Of an eye where feeling plays
In ten thousand dewy rays:
A face o’er which a thousand shadows go!
          The Triad.
5102
    Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.
          On the Power of Sound. xii.
5103
    The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift,
That no philosophy can lift.
          Presentiments.
5104
    Nature’s old felicities.
          The Trosachs.
5105
    Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower
Near the lark’s nest, and in their natural hour
Have passed away; less happy than the one
That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove
The tender charm of poetry and love.
          Poems composed during a Tour in the Summer of 1833.xxxvii.
5106
    Small service is true service while it lasts.
Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one:
The daisy, by the shadow that it casts,
Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.
          To a Child. Written in her Album.
5107
    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.
          Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg.
5108
    How fast has brother followed brother,
From sunshine to the sunless land!
          Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg.
5109
    Those old credulities, to Nature dear,
Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock
Of history?
          Memorials of a Tour in Italy. iv.