William Wordsworth

The deep power of joy

William Wordsworth | July-August 2018 (Vol. XXXI, No. 7)
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony and by the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
~ William Wordsworth

How gracious is Solitude

William Wordsworth | July/August 2013 (Vol. XXVI, No. 7)

When from our better selves we have too long
Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop,
Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired,
How gracious, how benign, is Solitude.

~ William Wordsworth, The Prelude IV 354

Come into the light of things

William Wordsworth | April 2009 (Vol. XXII, No. 4)

Come into the light of things.
Let nature be your teacher.

~ William Wordsworth

Let nature be your teacher

William Wordsworth |
Come forth into the light of things,
let Nature be your teacher.
~ by William Wordsworth

An eye made quiet by the deep power of joy

William Wordsworth | December 1999 (Vol. XII, No. 11)

While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.

~ William Wordsworth

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting

William Wordsworth | October 1999 (Vol. XII, No. 9)

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our Life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home...

~ William Wordsworth

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting

William Wordsworth | December 1992 (Vol. V, No. 11)

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home ...

~ from "Intimations of Immortality" by William Wordsworth
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