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Written in London. September, 1802
(William Wordsworth)

O Friend! I know not which way I must look
For comfort, being, as I am, opprest,
To think that now our life is only drest
For show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook,
Or groom! -- We must run glittering like a brook
In the open sunshine, or we are unblest:
The wealthiest man among us is the best:
No grandeur now in nature or in book
Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense,
This is idolatry; and these we adore:
Plain living and high thinking are no more:
The homely beauty of the good old cause
Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence,
And pure religion breathing household laws.


Poems/ Poetry / Quotations by William Wordsworth
Address To The Scholars Of The Village School Of ---- | Anecdote For Fathers | Character Of The Happy Warrior | Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 | Desideria | Elegiac Stanzas Suggested By A Picture Of Peele Castle In A Storm, Painted By Sir George Beaumont | Ellen Irwin | England, 1802 iv | A Narrow Girdle of Rough Stones and Crags, | She was a phantom of delight | "The World Is Too Much With Us; Late and Soon" | "There is an Eminence,--of these our hills" | A Character | A Night Thought | A Poet! He Hath Put his Heart to School | After-Thought | By the Seaside | Goody Blake and Harry Gill | Green Linnet, The | Guilt and Sorrow | Idiot Boy, The | Influence of Natural Objects | Laodamia | Lines written as a School Exercise at Hawkshead, Anno Aetatis | London, 1802 | Lucy Gray | Memory | Nutting | O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art | September, 1819 | Seven Sisters, The | October, 1803 | Ode Composed On A May Morning | Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood | On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford | On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic | Peter Bell, A Tale | Pet-Lamb, The: A Pastoral Poem | Remembrance of Collins | Reverie of Poor Susan, The | Rural Architecture | Ruth | Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle upon the Restoration of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd, to the Estates and Honours of his Ancestors | Song For The Wandering Jew | Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known | Longest Day, The | Prelude, The - (Book 2) | Prelude, The - (Book 4) | Reaper, The | 'Tis Said, That Some Have Died For Love | Table Turned, The | There is an Eminence of these our hills | Wishing Gate, The | Trosachs, The | Seven Sisters, The (OR Solitude of Binnorie, The) | Sonnet, The (i) | To A Butterfly (second poem) | To a Highland Girl (At Inversneyde, upon Loch Lomond) | To a Skylark | To May | To My Sister | Two April Mornings, The | Two Thieves, The | We are Seven | With How Sad Steps, O Moon, Thou Climb'st the Sky | With ships the sea was sprinkled | Written in Early Spring | Written in Germany, On One of The Coldest Days Of The Century | Written With a Pencil Upon a Stone In The Wall of The House, On The Island at Grasmere |


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