For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.
William WordsworthMeek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.
William WordsworthBy happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!
William WordsworthIt is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.
William Wordsworth