William Wordsworth: Trending quotes (page 14)

“But thou that didst appear so fair
To fond imagination,
Dost rival in the light of day
Her delicate creation.”

William Wordsworth

Yarrow Visited.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Imagination , Light , Appearance

“To the solid ground
Of Nature trusts the mind that builds for aye.”

William Wordsworth

A Volant Tribe of Bards on Earth.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Nature

“And when a damp
Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand
The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew
Soul-animating strains,—alas! too few.”

William Wordsworth

Scorn not the Sonnet.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Soul , Animals

“Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.”

William Wordsworth

Stanza 2.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html (1804)

Dance

“All men feel something of an honorable bigotry for the objects which have long continued to please them.”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

Preface.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

Men , Feeling

“Thou, while thy babes around thee cling,
Shalt show us how divine a thing
A Woman may be made.”

William Wordsworth

To a Young Lady, st. 2 (1805).

“She was a Phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight;
A lovely Apparition, sent
To be a moment's ornament;
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair,
Like twilights too her dusky hair,
But all things else about her drawn
From May-time and the cheerful dawn.”

William Wordsworth

Stanza 1.
She Was a Phantom of Delight http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww259.html (1804)

Love , Star , Time

“It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquillity;
The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea.”

William Wordsworth

It Is a Beautious Evening, l. 1 (1807).

Time , Sun , Sea

“One of those heavenly days that cannot die.”

William Wordsworth

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

“How blessings brighten as they take their flight!”

William Wordsworth

Occasionally misattributed to Wordsworth, but in fact by Edward Young again. It is from his Night Thoughts, Night II, line 602.
Misattributed

“In years that bring the philosophic mind.”

William Wordsworth

Intimations of Immortality Stanza 10.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The harvest of a quiet eye,
That broods and sleeps on his own heart.”

William Wordsworth

Stanza 13.
A Poet's Epitaph (1799)

Sleep , Heart

“Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.”

William Wordsworth

On the Power of Sound, xii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Love , Winter

“I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy,
The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride;
Of Him who walked in glory and in joy
Following his plough, along the mountain-side:
By our own spirits are we deified:
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness;
But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.”

William Wordsworth

Stanza 7.
Resolution and Independence (1807)

Youth , Soul , Mountain , Boy

“Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie
Open unto the fields and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.”

William Wordsworth

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802, l. 1 (1802).

Lie , Beauty , Soul

“But who, if he be called upon to face
Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined
Great issues, good or bad for human kind,
Is happy as a Lover.”

William Wordsworth

Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 48.

Lovers , Happiness

“More skillful in self-knowledge, even more pure,
As tempted more; more able to endure,
As more exposed to suffering and distress.”

William Wordsworth

Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 23.

Knowledge , Suffering

“Thou unassuming Common-place
Of Nature, with that homely face,
And yet with something of a grace,
Which Love makes for thee!”

William Wordsworth

To the Same Flower (the Daisy), st. 1 (1805).

Love , Home , Nature

“And he is oft the wisest man
Who is not wise at all.”

William Wordsworth

The Oak and the Broom.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“As if the man had fixed his face,
In many a solitary place,
Against the wind and open sky!”

William Wordsworth Peter Bell

Part I, stanza 16.
Peter Bell (1798)