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Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

William Wordsworth
Death, Memories, Headstone
William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.615

Death is the quiet haven of us all.

William Wordsworth
Death, Quiet, Havens
William Wordsworth (1855). “Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.179

One of those heavenly days that cannot die.

William Wordsworth
Death, Heavenly, Dies
William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.142

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

William Wordsworth
Life, Death, Children
'We are Seven' (1798) (the words 'dear brother Jim' were omitted in the 1815 edition of his poems)

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

William Wordsworth
Death, Summer, Heart
'The Excursion' (1814) bk. 1, l. 500

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.

William Wordsworth
Death, Eye, Men
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.389

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

William Wordsworth
Death, Misery, Poet
'Resolution and Independence' (1807) st. 17

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

William Wordsworth
Death, Faith, Freedom
'It is not to be thought of' (1807)

No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.

William Wordsworth
Death, Rocks, Tree
'A slumber did my spirit seal' (1800)

As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!

William Wordsworth
Life, Death, Nature
William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.427

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