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“Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he
That every man in arms should wish to be?”

Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 1.

“How fast has brother followed brother,
From sunshine to the sunless land!”

Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“What fond and wayward thoughts will slide
Into a lover's head!
"O mercy!" to myself I cried,
"If Lucy should be dead!"”

Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known, st. 7 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

“Sad fancies do we then affect,
In luxury of disrespect
To our own prodigal excess
Of too familiar happiness.”

Ode to Lycoris.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“These feeble and fastidious times.”

Letter to Alexander Dyce (April 19, 1830).

“Two Voices are there; one is of the sea,
One of the mountains; each a mighty Voice.”

Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland, l. 1 (1807).

“She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:”

She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, st. 1 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

“And you must love him, ere to you
He will seem worthy of your love.”

Stanza 11.
A Poet's Epitaph (1799)

“And often, glad no more,
We wear a face of joy because
We have been glad of yore.”

The Fountain, st. ?? (1799).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!”

She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, st. 3 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

“Dear Child of Nature, let them rail!”

To a Young Lady, st. 1 (1805).