“Maidens withering on the stalk.”
Personal Talk, Stanza 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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“For the gods approve
The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.”
Stanza 13.
Laodamia (1814)
Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, st. 6 (1817).
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!”
The Cock is crowing.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.”
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.”
Stanza 4.
Resolution and Independence (1807)
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.”
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.”
Stanza 1.
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!”
To Sleep (A Flock of Sheep), l. 13 (1806).
“Elysian beauty, melancholy grace,
Brought from a pensive though a happy place.”
Stanza 16.
Laodamia (1814)
“But hushed be every thought that springs
From out the bitterness of things.”
Elegiac Stanzas. Addressed to Sir G.H.B., st. 7 (1824).
“Choice word and measured phrase, above the reach
Of ordinary men.”
Stanza 14.
Resolution and Independence (1807)
“May no rude hand deface it,
And its forlorn Hic jacet!”
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.”
The Brothers.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And sings a solitary song
That whistles in the wind.”
Lucy Gray, or Solitude, st. 16 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
The White Doe of Rylstone, canto iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“In truth the prison, unto which we doom
Ourselves, no prison is.”
Nuns Fret Not, l. 8 (1806).
“In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.”
Source: Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines Written in Early Spring, st. 1 (1798).
Cancelled lines originally in the second stanza of Louisa (1805).
“And stepping westward seemed to be
A kind of heavenly destiny.”
Stepping Westward, st. 2.
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland (1803)
Yarrow Unvisited, st. 1.
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland (1803)
Stanza 8.
Ode to Duty http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww271.html (1805)
“We meet thee, like a pleasant thought,
When such are wanted.”
To the Daisy.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.”
The Borderers Act iv. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Soft is the music that would charm forever;
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”
Not Love, not War.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
“The Eagle, he was lord above,
And Rob was lord below.”
Rob Roy's Grave, st. 14.
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland (1803)
The Recluse, l. 401 (1805).
“Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel
To self-reproach.”
The Old Cumberland Beggar.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Stanza 3.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)
Bk. III, l. 60.
The Prelude (1799-1805)
“Something between a hindrance and a help.”
Michael. A Pastoral Poem, l. 189 (1800).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
“The best of what we do and are,
Just God, forgive!”
Thoughts suggested on the Banks of the Nith.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite.”
This was not Wordsworth's viewpoint at all. The words are in fact those of Bertrand Russell in his Sceptical Essays (1928), p. 157.
Misattributed
“Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew up
Fostered alike by beauty and by fear.”
Bk. I, l. 301.
The Prelude (1799-1805)
Preface.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
“And 't is my faith, that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.”
Source: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Lines written in Early Spring.
“Meek Walton's heavenly memory.”
Part III, No. 5 – Walton's Book of Lives.
Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)
“And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine.”
Stanza 3.
She Was a Phantom of Delight http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww259.html (1804)
“Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!”
Stanza 1.
Ode to Duty http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww271.html (1805)
“That inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude.”
Stanza 4.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html (1804)
“Oh, be wise, Thou!
Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.”
Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.
Lines (1795)
Force of Prayer.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Preface.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, st. ? (1799).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Stanza 3.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)
