William Wordsworth

And, when the steam Which overflowed the soul had passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left. . . . images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and can not be destroyed.

Consolidate

Consolidating numbers into unity.

Constitute

Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine.

Contract

Years contracting to a moment.

Contradict

The future can not contradict the past.

Contradiction

Of contradictions infinite the slave.

Contrast

place the prospect of the soul In sober contrast with reality.

Converse

But to converse with heaven - This is not easy.

Cresset

As a cresset true that darts its length Of beamy luster from a tower of strength.

Crest

Mid groves of clouds that crest the mountain's brow.

Croak

Two ravens now began to croak Their nuptial song.

Croft

A few small crofts of stone-encumbered ground.

Cultivate

Leisure . . . to cultivate general literature.

Curr

The owlets hoot, the owlets curr.

Dabble

Where the duck dabbles 'mid the rustling sedge.

Dance

Where rivulets dance their wayward round.

Deceive

These occupations oftentimes deceived The listless hour.

Deify

By our own spirits are we deified.

Destructive

Time's destructive power.

Dim

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

Dimple

The garden pool's dark surface . . . Breaks into dimples small and bright.

Double

[Let] The swan, on still St. Mary's lake, Float double, swan and shadow.

Doubling and doubling with laborious walk.

Dower

Man in his primeval dower arrayed.

Dreadful

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

Duffel

Good duffel gray and flannel fine.

Dwell

Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart.

Eddy

Eddying round and round they sink.

Encincture

The vast encincture of that gloomy sea.

Equalize

One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low.

Espy

A goodly vessel did I then espy Come like a giant from a haven broad.

Face

We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore.

Fane

Such to this British Isle, her Christian fanes.

Fee

Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee.

Fen

'Mid reedy fens wide spread.

fibula

Mere fibulæ, without a robe to clasp.

Flaky

A flaky weight of winter's purest snows.

Food

In this moment there is life and food For future years.

Forego

Pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone.

Frost

While with a hoary light she frosts the ground.

Fumble

Alas! how he fumbles about the domains.

Gladden

The vast Pacific gladdens with the freight.

Gladsome

Hours of perfect gladsomeness.

Glide

The river glideth at his own sweet will.

Hardihood

A bound of graceful hardihood.

Harvest

The harvest of a quiet eye.

Heart

Peace subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation.

Heavy

Sent hither to impart the heavy news.

High

Plain living and high thinking are no more.

Hindrance

Something between a hindrance and a help.

Hiss

Shod with steel, We hissed along the polished ice.

Home-bred

Benignity and home-bred sense.

Honor

Say, what is honor? 'T is the finest sense Of justice which the human mind can frame, Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim, And guard the way of life from all offense Suffered or done.

Host

All at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils.

Humanity

But hearing oftentimes The still, and music humanity.

Impave

Impaved with rude fidelity Of art mosaic.

Innocuous

Where the salt sea innocuously breaks.

Insensate

The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things.

Jolly

“A jolly place,” said he, “in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed.”

Kind

She follows the law of her kind.

Kindly

Should e'er a kindlier time ensue.

Kindness

Unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

Kindred

True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

Leap

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky.

Life

That gives thy gestures grace and life.

Lime

Like the lime That foolish birds are caught with.

Look

Up ! up! my friends, and clear your looks.

Low

Talking voices and the law of herds.

Marge

Along the river's stony marge.

Mellow

May health return to mellow age.

Meter

The only strict antithesis to prose is meter.

Mew

Violets in their secret mews.

Moralize

While chastening thoughts of sweetest use, bestowed By Wisdom, moralize his pensive road.

Morrice

In shoals and bands, a morrice train.

Needment

Carrying each his needments.

Noticeable

A noticeable man, with large gray eyes.

nun

They holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.

O

O for a kindling touch from that pure flame!

But she is in her grave, -- and oh The difference to me!

Obstinate

Of sense and outward things.

Onset

Who on that day the word of onset gave.

Overbrow

Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath.

Phantom

She was a phantom of delight.

Plan

The simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.

Planet-stricken

Like planet-stricken men of yore He trembles, smitten to the core By strong compunction and remorse.

Primal

The primal duties shine aloft like stars.

Property

Shall man assume a property in man?

Rake

Like clouds that rake the mountain summits.

Random

Some random truths he can impart.

Repair

Do thou, as thou art wont, repair My heart with gladness.

Rift

To dwell these rifted rocks between.

Rood

Savior, in thine image seen Bleeding on that precious rood.

Rustic

She had a rustic, woodland air.

Sedate

Whatsoever we feel and know Too sedate for outward show.

Set

Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.

Shed

Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head.

Sheer

It was at least Nine roods of sheer ascent.

Shy

The embarrassed look of shy distress And maidenly shamefacedness.

Sob

The tremulous sob of the complaining owl.

Soft

A face with gladness overspread, Soft smiles, by human kindness bred.

Spark

Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

Spleen

There is a luxury in self-dispraise: And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

Spot

“A jolly place,” said he, “in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed.”

Stave

Let us chant a passing stave In honor of that hero brave.

Steel

These waters, steeled By breezeless air to smoothest polish.

Steep

In refreshing dew to steep The little, trembling flowers.

Bare steeps, where desolation stalks.

Stern

These barren rocks, your stern inheritance.

Strid

This striding place is called the Strid.

Tarn

A lofty precipice in front, A silent tarn below.

Terraqueous

The grand terraqueous spectacle From center to circumference unveiled.

Tether

And by a slender cord was tethered to a stone.

Thump

The distant forge's swinging thump profound.

Tooth

The twin cards toothed with glittering wire.

Triton

Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.

Unbridled

Lands deluged by unbridled floods.

Unearth

To unearth the roof of an old tree.

Up

Up, up, my friend! and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double.

Usurp

And now the Spirits of the Mind Are busy with poor Peter Bell; Upon the rights of visual sense Usurping, with a prevalence More terrible than magic spell.