Quotations from poetry of different ages- Part-02

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Come live with me, and be my love,

And we will all the pleasures prove,

That valleys groves, hills and fields

Woods or sleepy mountain yields.

The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.

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I am the daughter of Earth and Water.

And the nursling of the Sky.

The Cloud(1819)

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;

Destroyer and preserver ;hear, oh hear!

Ode to the West Wind(1819) 1.1

Oh, lift me as a wave , a leaf, a cloud!

I fall upon the throne of life! I bleed!

Ode to the West Wind(1819) 1.53

If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Ode to the West Wind(1819) 1.66

We look  before and after,

And pine for what is not;

Or sincerest laughter

With some pain is fraught;

Our Sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

To a skylark(1819)

Poets are the unacknowledged legislature of the world.

A defense of Poetry(1821)

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To err is human; to forgive, divine.

An Essay on Criticism(1711) 1.525

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

An Essay on Criticism(1711) 1.625

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

An honest man is the noblest work of the God.

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

An Essay on Criticism

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Letter to gay, October 6, 1727

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Full many a gem of purest ray serene,

The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,

And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Elegy written in a country churchyard (751) 1.53

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Ten thousand saw at a glance

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

I wandered lonely as a cloud

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o’er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw  a crowd,

A host of golden Daffodils

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (also commonly known as "Daffodils")

Behold her, single in the field,

Yon solitary highland lass!

Reaping and singing by herself;

Stop here or gently pass

The Solitary Reaper(1807)

The music in my heart I bore,

Long after it was heard no more.

The Solitary Reaper(1807)

The Child is father to the Man

My heart leaps up when I behold(1807)

All our progress is an unfolding like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Character is higher than intellect…A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil is good.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Insist on yourself; never imitate….. Every great man is unique.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

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Half a league, half a league,
    Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
    Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
    Rode the six hundred.

The Charge of the Light Brigade