William Wordsworth Quotes (419 Quotes)

And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.

Two voices are there one is of the sea, One of the mountains,each a mighty voice.

The Child is father of the Man And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave.

The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

Oh, be wiser thou Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

With gentle hand; Touch - for there is a spirit in the woods.

Meek Walton's heavenly memory.

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.

And now I see with eye serene; The very pulse of the machine; A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death.

Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

I have submitted to a new control; A power is gone, which nothing can restore; A deep distress hath humanised my soul.

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.

One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.

Ethereal minstrel pilgrim of the sky; Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound.

A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.