William Wordsworth Citations
William Wordsworth: Citations en anglais
The Italian Itinerant.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Maidens withering on the stalk.”
Personal Talk, Stanza 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“For the gods approve
The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.”
Stanza 13.
Laodamia (1814)
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 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)
Variante: 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)
