Date: 1850

"My mind was at that time / A parti-coloured show of grave and gay, / Solid and light, short-sighted and profound; / Of inconsiderate habits and sedate, / Consorting in one mansion unreproved. "

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"Oh! why hath not the Mind, / Some element to stamp her image on / In nature somewhat nearer to her own?"

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"Mighty is the charm / Of those abstractions to a mind beset / With images, and haunted by herself."

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"Let this alone / Be mentioned as a parting word, that not / In hollow exultation, dealing out / Hyperboles of praise comparative; / Not rich one moment to be poor for ever; / Not prostrate, overborne, as if the mind / Herself were nothing, a mere pensioner / On outward forms--did we in presence ...

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"The matter that detains us now may seem, / To many, neither dignified enough / Nor arduous, yet will not be scorned by them, / Who, looking inward, have observed the ties / That bind the perishable hours of life / Each to the other, and the curious props / By which the world of memory and though...

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"For though I was most passionately moved / And yielded to all changes of the scene / With an obsequious promptness, yet the storm / Passed not beyond the suburbs of the mind"

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"In fits of kindliest apprehensiveness, / From all sides, when whate'er was in itself / Capacious found, or seemed to find, in me / A correspondent amplitude of mind; / Such is the strength and glory of our youth."

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"There I beheld the emblem of a mind / That feeds upon infinity, that broods / Over the dark abyss, intent to hear / Its voices issuing forth to silent light / In one continuous stream; a mind sustained / By recognitions of transcendent power, / In sense conducting to ideal form, / In soul of mor...

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"Behold an emblem of our human mind / Crowded with thoughts that need a settled home, / Yet, like to eddying balls of foam / Within this whirlpool, they each other chase / Round and round, and neither find / An outlet nor a resting-place!"

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)

Date: 1850

"No familiar shapes / Remained, no pleasant images of trees, / Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields; / But huge and mighty forms, that do not live / Like living men, moved slowly through the mind / By day, and were a trouble to my dreams."

— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)