"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" Quotes

These beauteous forms, through a long absence, have not been to me as is a landscape to a blind man's eye.

The sounding cataract haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, the mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood.

And I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused.

For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude.

And so I dare to hope, though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first I came among these hills.

A sense of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.

That inward eye which is the bliss of solitude.

And I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts.

And this green pastoral landscape, were to me more dear, both for themselves and for thy sake!

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