Surprised by joy-impatient as the Wind.

But shapes that come not at an earthly call, Will not depart when mortal voices bid.

And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare That kill the bloom before its time; And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most respl…

Mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is Love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favorite sea…

He is the happy wanderer, who goes, Singing upon the way, with eyes awake To every scene, with ears alert to take The sweetness of all sounds; who loves and kn…

When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow park we saw a few daffodils close to the water side:At last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a l…

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.