Wordsworth - Poem Quotes Flashcards
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The Ruined Cottage
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- “Many rich / Sunk down as in a dream among the poor. / And of the poor did many cease to be”
- “Two blighting seasons when the fields were left. / With half a harvest”
- “With instantaneous joy I recognised / That pride of Nature and of lowly life”
- “Tranquil ruin”
- “Her cottage in its outwards look appeared / As cheerful as before”
- “Knots of worthless stonecrop…grew like weeds”
- “unprofitable bindweed(s)…unwieldy wreaths/ Had dragged rose from it’s sustaining wall/ And bent it down to earth”
- “It seemed the better part of her were gnawed away”
- “Her poor hut/ Sunk to decay”
- “Yet she loved this wretched spot” “torturing hope”
- “That secret spirit of humanity … mid the calm oblivious tendencies / Of Nature … still survived”
- “The weakness of humanity / From natural wisdom turn our hearts away, / To natural comfort shut our eyes and ear, / And feeding on disquiet, thus disturb / The calm of Nature with our restless thought?”
- “He had rehearsed/ Her homely tail with such familiar power”
- “The purpose of wisdom…Be wise and cheerful, and no longer read/ The forms of things with an unworthy eye”
2
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To My Sister
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- “My sister! (‘tis a wish of mine)…Come forth and feel the sun”
- “We’ll give to idleness”
- “No joyless forms shall regulate / Our living calendar”
- “The hour of feeling’’
- “One moment now may give us more / Than years of toiling reason”
- “Our minds shall drink at every pore / The spirit of the season”
3
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Nutting
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- “The eagerness of boyish hope”
- “with crash..merciless ravage…mutilated”
- “Patiently gave up / Their quiet being”
- “Move along these shades/ In gentleness of heart…for there is a spirit in the woods”
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Michael
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- “Not verily/ For their own sakes, but for the field and hills/ Where was their occupation and abode”
- “felt the power/ Of Nature”
- “Unusual strength… more than ordinary men”
- “He learned the meaning of all winds, / Of blasts of every tone”
- “The pleasure which there is in life itself”
- “The couple neither gay perhaps/ Nor cheerful, yet with objects and with hopes,/ Living a life of eager industry”
- “The evening star” “famous” “symbol of life”
- “dissolute city” “evil courses: ignominy and shame”
- “The cottage which was named The Evening Star / Is now gone”
5
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Resolution and Independence
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- “I heard the woods and distant waters roar… as happy as a boy/ The pleasant season did my heart employ”
- “Old remembrances went from me wholly; / And all the ways of men, so vain and melancholy”
- “Child of earth”
- “solitude, pain of hear, distress, and poverty”
- “Motionless as a cloud the old man stood”
- “Above the reach of ordinary men”
- “From some far region sent, / To give me human strength by apt admonishment”
- “The fear that kills” “the hope that is unwilling to be fed”
- “Laughing himself to scorn”
- “By my help and stay secure; I’ll think of the Leech-gatherer of the lonely moor”
6
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Three Years She Grew In Sun and Shower
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- “A lovelier flower/ On earth was never sown”
- “This Child I to myself will take;/ She shall be mine”
- “How soon my Lucy’s race was run”
- “The memory of what has been/ And never more will be”
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Lucy Gray; or, Solitude
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- “Oft I heard of Lucy Gray”
- “The sweetest thing that ever grew/ Beside a human door”
- “some maintain..She is a living…Upon the lonesome wild”
- “Her feet dispers the powdery snow,/ That rises up like smoke”
- “never looks behind;/ And sings a solitary song”
- “never reached the town”
8
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Tintern Abbey
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- “These beauteous forms…I have owed…tranquil restoration…[and] another gift,/ Of aspect more sublime…the weary weight of this unintelligible world,/ Is lightened”
- “din of towns and cities”
- “fever of the world”
- “That in this moment there is life and food for future years”
- “sad perplexity”
- “like a roe / I bounded o’er the mountains”
- “more like a man / Flying from something that he dreads, than one/Who sought the thing he loved”
- “courser pleasures of my boyish days / And their glad animal movements all gone by”
- “And all its aching joys“ ”dizzy raptures”
- “abundant recompense” “thoughtless youth” “still sad music of humanity”
- “A motion and a spirit, that impels”
- “The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, / The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul / Of all my moral being.”
- “Knowing that Nature never did betray/ The hear that loved her”
- “Thy memory be as a dwelling-place / For all sweet sounds and harmonies”
- “Evil tongues, / Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men”
- “The dreary intercourse of daily life”
- “Worshipper of Nature”
9
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Expostulation and Reply
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- “And dream your(/my) time away”
- “we can feed this mind of ours/ In a wise passiveness”
10
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Ode: Intimations of Immortality
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- “the child is father of the man”
- “Apparelled in celestial light”
- “The things which I have seen I now can see no more.”
- “Where is it now the glory and the dream?”
- “Trailing clouds of glory do we come/ From God”
- “Heaven lies about us in our infancy”
- ‘’Shades of the prison-house begin to close’’
- “Nature’s Priest”
- “fade into the light of common day”
- “We are toiling all our lives to find”
- “Embers”
- “The thought of our past years in me doth breed”
- “Shadowy rememberings…are yet the fountain light of all our day”
11
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The Two-Part Prelude
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- “Was it for this?”
- Gifts
- “Composed thoughts…infant softness…A knowledge, a dim earnest, of the calm”
- “Fretful dwelling of Mankind”
- Boat story
- “Act of stealth”
- ‘’Voluntary power instinct”
- “Upreared its head…like a living thing…strode after me”
- Became aware of “unknown modes of being”
- “From my first dawn/ Of childhood, did ye love to intertwine/ The passions that build up our human soul, / “Not with the mean and vulgar works of man,/ But with high objects, with eternal things”
- “I perceive / That much is overlooked….the growth of mental power / And love of Nature’s works”
- ”voices in the clouds”
- “spots in time”
- “Know no decay”
- “Feelings were attached”
- “Independent life”
- “Chiefly seem to have their date/ In our first childhood”
- “I looked in such anxiety of hope, / With trite reflections of morality….God who thus corrected my desires”
- “From Nature … I had received so much that all my thoughts / Were steeped in feeling”
- ”lived / With god and nature communing”
12
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Lines written in Early spring
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- “In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts / Bring sad thoughts to the mind”
- “To her fair works did Nature link / The human soul that through me ran”
- “Nature’s holy plan”
- “Have I not reason to lament / what man has made of man?”
13
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The Tables Turned
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- “Let Nature be your Teacher”
- “We murder to disect”
- “Close up those barren leaves”
- “Enough of Science and of Art”
- “Our meddling intellect/ Mis-shapes the forms of things”
- “A heart that watches and receives”
14
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My heart leaps up when I behold
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My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
15
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1801
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- “What food / Fed his hopes?”
- “Tis’ not from battle that youth we train”
- “books, leisure, perfect freedom”
- “Stalk”
