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“Whom neither shape of danger can dismay,
Nor thought of tender happiness betray.”

Source: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 72.

“The sightless Milton, with his hair
Around his placid temples curled;
And Shakespeare at his side,—a freight,
If clay could think and mind were weight,
For him who bore the world!”

William Wordsworth

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

“Maidens withering on the stalk.”

William Wordsworth

Personal Talk, Stanza 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“For the gods approve
The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.”

William Wordsworth Laodamia

Stanza 13.
Laodamia (1814)

“And beauty, for confiding youth,
Those shocks of passion can prepare
That kill the bloom before its time;
And blanch, without the owner's crime,
The most resplendent hair.”

William Wordsworth

Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, st. 6 (1817).

“Nor, perchance,
If I were not thus taught, Should I the more
Suffer my genial spirits to decay:
For thou art with me here upon the banks
Of this fair river; thou, my dearest Friend,
My dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catch
The language of my former heart, and read
My former pleasures in the shooting lights
Of thy wild eyes. Oh! yet a little while
May I behold in thee what I was once,
My dear, dear Sister! And this prayer I make,
Knowing that Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege,
Through all the years of this our life, to lead
From joy to joy: for she can so inform
The mind that is within us, so impress
With quietness and beauty, and so feed
With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues,
Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men,
Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all
The dreary intercourse of daily life,
Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb
Our cheerful faith that all which we behold
Is full of blessings.”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

Stanza 4.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)

“The cattle are grazing,
Their heads never raising;
There are forty feeding like one!”

William Wordsworth

The Cock is crowing.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.”

William Wordsworth

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

“As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.”

William Wordsworth

Stanza 4.
Resolution and Independence (1807)

“Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd;
He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.”

William Wordsworth

Another couplet from Edward Young: this time Night Thoughts, Night II, line 160.
Misattributed

“Full twenty times was Peter feared,
For once that Peter was respected.”

William Wordsworth Peter Bell

Peter Bell, Part I, stanza 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A light to guide, a rod
To check the erring, and reprove.”

William Wordsworth

Stanza 1. <br class="br"> Ode to Duty http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww271.html (1805)

“Come, blessed barrier between day and day,
Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!”

William Wordsworth

To Sleep (A Flock of Sheep), l. 13 (1806).

“Elysian beauty, melancholy grace,
Brought from a pensive though a happy place.”

William Wordsworth Laodamia

Stanza 16.
Laodamia (1814)

“But hushed be every thought that springs
From out the bitterness of things.”

William Wordsworth

Elegiac Stanzas. Addressed to Sir G.H.B., st. 7 (1824).

“Choice word and measured phrase, above the reach
Of ordinary men.”

William Wordsworth

Stanza 14.
Resolution and Independence (1807)

“May no rude hand deface it,
And its forlorn Hic jacet!”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle, st. 7 (1800).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

“Until a man might travel twelve stout miles,
Or reap an acre of his neighbor's corn.”

William Wordsworth

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

“And sings a solitary song
That whistles in the wind.”

William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads

Lucy Gray, or Solitude, st. 16 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

“The monumental pomp of age
Was with this goodly personage;
A stature undepressed in size,
Unbent, which rather seemed to rise
In open victory o'er the weight
Of seventy years, to loftier height.”

William Wordsworth

The White Doe of Rylstone, canto iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)