William Wordsworth: Trending quotes (page 5)

“There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale,
Which to this day stands single, in the midst
Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore.”

William Wordsworth

Yew-Trees, l. 1 (1803).

Tree

“How does the Meadow-flower its bloom unfold?
Because the lovely little flower is free
Down to its root, and, in that freedom, bold.”

William Wordsworth

A Poet!—He Hath Put His Heart to School, l. 9 (1842).

Love , Flowers , Freedom

“A cheerful life is what the Muses love,
A soaring spirit is their prime delight.”

William Wordsworth

From the Dark Chambers of Dejection Freed, l. 13 (1814).

Love , Life

“Enough, if something from our hands have power
To live, and act, and serve the future hour.”

William Wordsworth

The River Duddon, sonnet 34 - Afterthought, l. 10 (1820).

Future

“True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.”

William Wordsworth

To ____ . (Let other Bards of Angels sing), st. 3 (1824).

Beauty , Lovers , Heart

“A day
Spent in a round of strenuous idleness.”

William Wordsworth book The Prelude

Bk. IV, l. 377.
The Prelude (1799-1805)

“O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer thro' the woods,
How often has my spirit turned to thee!”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

Stanza 3.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)

“Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows
Like harmony in music; there is a dark
Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles
Discordant elements, makes them cling together
In one society.”

William Wordsworth book The Prelude

Bk. I, l. 340.
The Prelude (1799-1805)

Music

“A noticeable man, with large gray eyes.”

William Wordsworth

Stanzas written in Thomson's Castle of Indolence.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A remnant of uneasy light.”

William Wordsworth

The Matron of Jedborough.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Light

“The stars of midnight shall be dear
To her; and she shall lean her ear
In many a secret place
Where rivulets dance their wayward round,
And beauty born of murmuring sound
Shall pass into her face.”

William Wordsworth

Three years she grew in Sun and Shower.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Secret , Beauty , Star , Dance

“Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go?
Fresh as a lark mounting at break of day,
Festively she puts forth in trim array.”

William Wordsworth

Where Lies the Land, l. 1 (1806).

“Mightier far
Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway
Of magic potent over sun and star,
Is Love, though oft to agony distrest,
And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast.”

William Wordsworth Laodamia

Stanza 14.
Laodamia (1814)

Love , Star , Sun

“Thought and theory must precede all action that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.”

William Wordsworth

Attributed by Anna Jameson in her A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories and Fancies (1854).

“A morbid pleasure nourished, tracing here
An emblem of his own unfruitful life:
And, lifting up his head, he then would gaze
On the more distant scene,—how lovely 'tis
Thou seest,—and he would gaze till it became
Far lovelier, and his heart could not sustain
The beauty, still more beauteous! Nor, that time,
When nature had subdued him to herself,
Would he forget those Beings to whose minds,
Warm from the labours of benevolence,
The world and human life appeared a scene
Of kindred loveliness: then he would sigh,
Inly disturbed, to think that others felt
What he must never feel: and so, lost Man!
On visionary views would fancy feed,
Till his eye streamed with tears. In this deep vale
He died,—this seat his only monument.”

William Wordsworth

Lines (1795)

Love , Life , Pleasure , World

“O Blithe newcomer! I have heard,
I hear thee and rejoice.
O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,
Or but a wandering Voice?”

William Wordsworth

To the Cuckoo, st. 1 (1804).

Bird

“The bane of all that dread the Devil.”

William Wordsworth

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

“The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;
perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command.”

William Wordsworth

Stanza 3.
She Was a Phantom of Delight http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww259.html (1804)

Perfection

“The common growth of Mother Earth
Suffices me,—her tears, her mirth,
Her humblest mirth and tears.”

William Wordsworth Peter Bell

Prologue, stanza 27.
Peter Bell (1798)

Tear

“Huge and mighty forms, that do not live
Like living men, moved slowly through the mind
By day, and were a trouble to my dreams.”

William Wordsworth book The Prelude

Bk. I, l. 398.
The Prelude (1799-1805)

Men , Dreams