Quotes from workPeter Bell
Peter Bell: A Tale in Verse is a long narrative poem by William Wordsworth, written in 1798, but not published until 1819.
“The common growth of Mother Earth
Suffices me,—her tears, her mirth,
Her humblest mirth and tears.”
Prologue, stanza 27.
Peter Bell (1798)
“The soft blue sky did never melt
Into his heart; he never felt
The witchery of the soft blue sky!”
Part I, stanza 15.
Peter Bell (1798)
“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 primrose by a river's brim
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more.”
Part I, stanza 12.
Peter Bell (1798)
“As if the man had fixed his face,
In many a solitary place,
Against the wind and open sky!”
Part I, stanza 16.
Peter Bell (1798)
