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“The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

Preface.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

Beauty

“A famous man is Robin Hood,
The English ballad-singer's joy.”

William Wordsworth

Rob Roy's Grave, st. 1.
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland (1803)

Joy

“Babylon,
Learned and wise, hath perished utterly,
Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh
That would lament her.”

William Wordsworth

Part I, No. 25 - Missions and Travels.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)

Learning

“He sang of love, with quiet blending,
Slow to begin, and never ending;
Of serious faith, and inward glee;
That was the song,—the song for me!”

William Wordsworth

O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art, l. 17 (1807).

Love , Faith

“A reasoning, self-sufficing thing,
An intellectual All-in-all!”

William Wordsworth

Stanza 8.
A Poet's Epitaph (1799)

“A Briton even in love should be
A subject, not a slave!”

William Wordsworth

Ere with Cold Beads of Midnight Dew.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Love

“Action is transitory—a step, a blow—
The motion of a muscle—this way or that—
'Tis done; and in the after-vacancy
We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed.”

William Wordsworth

The White Doe of Rylstone, l. 1 (1807).

Men , Way

“The soft blue sky did never melt
Into his heart; he never felt
The witchery of the soft blue sky!”

William Wordsworth Peter Bell

Part I, stanza 15.
Peter Bell (1798)

Heart

“Oft on the dappled turf at ease
I sit, and play with similes,
Loose types of things through all degrees.”

William Wordsworth

To the Same Flower (the Daisy), st. 2 (1805).

“Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower
Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour
Have passed away; less happy than the one
That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove
The tender charm of poetry and love.”

William Wordsworth

Poems Composed or Suggested During a Tour in the Summer of 1833, "There!" said a Stripling, l. 10 (1833).

Love , Flowers , Nature , Happiness

“Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind.”

William Wordsworth

Surprised by Joy, l. 1 (1815).

Joy

“Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;
Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,
Frozen by distance.”

William Wordsworth

Address to Kilchurn Castle.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“My eyes are dim with childish tears,
My heart is idly stirred,
For the same sound is in my ears
Which in those days I heard.

Thus fares it still in our decay:
And yet the wiser mind
Mourns less for what age takes away
Than what it leaves behind.”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

The Fountain, st. 8 & 9 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

Age , Tear , Heart

“Type of the wise who soar, but never roam;
True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home!”

William Wordsworth

To a Skylark, st. 2 (1825).

Home

“A jolly place," said he, "in times of old!
But something ails it now: the spot is cursed.”

William Wordsworth

Hart-leap Well, part ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Time

“Since every mortal power of Coleridge
Was frozen at its marvellous source,
The rapt one, of the godlike forehead,
The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:
And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle,
Has vanished from his lonely hearth.”

William Wordsworth

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

Sleep

“A few strong instincts and a few plain rules,
Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have wrought
More for mankind at this unhappy day
Then all the pride of intellect and thought?”

William Wordsworth

Alas! What Boots the Long Laborious Quest?, l. 11 (1809).

Strong

“Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way.”

William Wordsworth

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

Way , Star

“I travelled among unknown men,
In lands beyond the sea;
Nor, England! did I know till then
What love I bore to thee.”

William Wordsworth

I Travelled Among Unknown Men, st. 1 (1799).

Love , Men , Travel , Sea

“Those old credulities, to Nature dear,
Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock
Of history?”

William Wordsworth

Memorials of a Tour in Italy, iv
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

History , Nature