Quote #97
O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.
More from William Wordsworth
- One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
- I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.
- Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
- What fond and wayward thoughts will slide Into a lover's head! 'O mercy!' to myself I cried, 'If Lucy should be dead!'
- Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
- She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love:
- The eye- it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our will.
- She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!