William Wordsworth Quotes on Perception
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A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.
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Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now.
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O Blithe newcomer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice. O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice?
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Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.
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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.
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And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
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The grim shape Towered up between me and the stars, and still, For so it seemed, with purpose of its own And measured motion like a living thing, Strode after me.
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And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine.
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There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore- Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.