Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower

Watching the movie, in which the angst- and love-ridden and sexually-repressed teenage girl reads a verse from Wordsworth's poem, Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, was yet another reminder that a couple of lines of a poem can say a lot more to and about the emotions than can two pages of prose.

There have been many movie scenes where just a couple of lines do the trick.  Even in charming ones like that awesome situation in The Roman Holiday, remember?  Or like Frasier reciting Tennyson's poem as the series comes to an end?  Or this Longfellow poem at the card table scene?

Here's a Wordsworth poem that says a lot about life, childhood, and the jaded people that we become when we grow older.