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“The light that never was, on sea or land,
The consecration, and the poet's dream.”

William Wordsworth

Elegiac Stanzas. Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, st. 4 (1805).

“As in the eye of Nature he has lived,
So in the eye of Nature let him die!”

William Wordsworth

The Old Cumberland Beggar.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“One solace yet remains for us who came
Into this world in days when story lacked
Severe research, that in our hearts we know
How, for exciting youth's heroic flame,
Assent is power, belief the soul of fact.”

William Wordsworth

Memorials of a Tour in Italy (1837), IV ("story" refers to History).

“Blessings be with them, and eternal praise,
Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!—
The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs
Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.”

William Wordsworth

Personal Talk, Stanza 4.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“When his veering gait
And every motion of his starry train
Seem governed by a strain
Of music, audible to him alone.”

William Wordsworth

The Triad.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“But, whenever a portion of this facility we may suppose even the greatest Poet to possess, there cannot be a doubt that the language which it will suggest of him, must, in liveliness and truth, fall far short of that with is uttered by men in real life, under the actual pressure of these passions, certain shadows of which the poet thus produced, or feels to be produced, in himself. However exalted a notion we would wish to cherish of the character of a Poet, it is obvious, that, while he describes and imitates passions, his situation is altogether slavish and mechanical, compared with the freedom and power of real and substantial action and suffering.”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

Preface.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

“Minds that have nothing to confer
Find little to perceive.”

William Wordsworth

Yes, Thou art Fair, Yet Be Not Moved, st. 2 (1845).

“Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.”

William Wordsworth

To a Butterfly (I've Watched You Now a Full Half-Hour), st. 2 (1801).

“And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law
In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.”

William Wordsworth

Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 53.

“What is pride? A whizzing rocket
That would emulate a star.”

William Wordsworth

Inscriptions Supposed to be Found in and near a Hermit's Cell, l. 11 (1818).

“Nor less I deem that there are Powers
Which of themselves our minds impress;
That we can feed this mind of ours
In a wise passiveness.”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

Expostulation and Reply, st. 6 (1798).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

“A primrose by a river's brim
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more.”

William Wordsworth Peter Bell

Part I, stanza 12.
Peter Bell (1798)

“Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows
That for oblivion take their daily birth
From all the fuming vanities of earth.”

William Wordsworth

Sky-Prospect from the Plain of France.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud
And magnify thy name Almighty God!
But man is thy most awful instrument
In working out a pure intent.”

William Wordsworth

Ode. Imagination before Content.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong;
And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.”

William Wordsworth book Poems, in Two Volumes

Stanza 7. http://books.google.com/books?id=pzgJAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Thou+dost+preserve+the+stars+from+wrong+And+the+most+ancient+heavens+through+Thee+are+fresh+and+strong%22&pg=PA73#v=onepage <br class="br"> Ode to Duty http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww271.html (1805)

“Five years have passed; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a sweet inland murmur.—Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
Which on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky.”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

Stanza 1.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)

“The good old rule
Sufficeth them, the simple plan,
That they should take, who have the power,
And they should keep who can.”

William Wordsworth

Rob Roy's Grave, st. 9.
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland (1803)

“Lady of the Mere,
Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.”

William Wordsworth

A Narrow Girdle of Rough Stones and Crags, l. 37 (1803).

“Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.”

William Wordsworth

Actually Night I, line 390 of Edward Young's Night Thoughts.
Misattributed

“Burn all the statutes and their shelves:
They stir us up against our kind;
And worse, against ourselves.”

William Wordsworth

Rob Roy's Grave, st. 5.
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland (1803)