William Wordsworth Quotes about Youth
A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.
William Wordsworth (1835). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc”, p.88
"The French Revolution, as It Appeared to Enthusiasts" l. 4 (1809). The same lines appear in Wordsworth's The Prelude, bk. 9, l. 108 (1850).
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
"Resolution and Independence" l. 43 (1807)