The fretful stir
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.


Lines completed a few miles above Tintern Abbey - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

William Wordsworth Quotes

The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.

The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.

The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.

The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.