Top 25 Quotes by William Wordsworth of 476 - Page 16

In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the

In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.

William Wordsworth

Passion, Law, Differences

William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.502

Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises.

William Wordsworth

Lilies, Praise, Daisies

William Wordsworth (1852). “Complete Poetical Works”, p.139

The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains.

William Wordsworth

Men, Mountain, Easy

c.1800 The Priest. 'The Brothers', l.182-3.

A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.

William Wordsworth

Art, Eye, Faces

William Wordsworth (1857). “The Earlier Poems of William Wordsworth: Corrected as in the Latest Editions. With Preface, and Notes Showing the Text as it Stood in 1815”, p.329

The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

William Wordsworth

Wind, Tasks, Laborers

A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be not unblest- compared With him who grovels, self-debarred From all that lies within the scope Of holy faith and christian hope; Or, shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

William Wordsworth

Christian, Lying, Pride

William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.355

If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus famliarised to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to the aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.

William Wordsworth

Men, Blood, Inmates

Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather, In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard-seat! And birds and flowers once more to greet, My last year's friends together.

William Wordsworth

Sweet, Spring, Flower

William Wordsworth (2008). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, In: 1801-1805”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.

The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

William Wordsworth

Lying, Flower, Heart

'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 11

A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless.

William Wordsworth

Lying, Rain, Fall

William Wordsworth, Myles Birket Foster, Sir John Gilbert, Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT, Joseph WOLF (Artist.) (1859). “Poems of William Wordsworth. Selected and edited by Robert Aris Willmott ... Illustrated with one hundred designs by Birket Foster, J. Wolf, and John Gilbert, engraved by the brothers Dalziel”, p.208

the Mind of Man-- My haunt, and the main region of my song.

William Wordsworth

Song, Thoughtful, Men

'The Excursion' (1814) preface, l. 40

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

William Wordsworth

Gratitude, Money, Men

William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.263, Delphi Classics

The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.

William Wordsworth

Mother, Growth, Tears

William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.238, Wordsworth Editions

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude

William Wordsworth

Acceptance, Reflection, Men

'The Excursion' (1814) preface, l. 1

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

William Wordsworth

Stupid, Mind, Acting

William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.370

When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?

William Wordsworth

Country, Fear, Men

William Wordsworth (1851). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ...”, p.255

In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure, The heart luxuriates with indifferent things, Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones, And on the vacant air.

William Wordsworth

Sweet, Nature, Heart

William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.143

Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.

William Wordsworth

Names, Long, Desire

William Wordsworth (1962). “A Wordsworth Selection”

The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

William Wordsworth

Kindness, Shadow, Sun

William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.117