“That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton.”
Source: William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude
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“Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.”
Source: 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 ...
“A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.”
Source: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc
“Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth Series
“Then blame not those who, by the mightiest lever Known to the moral world, Imagination.”
“One of those heavenly days that cannot die.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“For all things are less dreadful than they seem.”
Source: 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 ...
“The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.”
Source: The Earlier Poems of William Wordsworth: Corrected as in the Latest Editions. With Preface, and Notes Showing the Text as it Stood in 1815
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England
“He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.”
Source: The Poetical works
“Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!”
“Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.”
Source: 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 ...
Source: Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England
“We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
Source: 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 ...
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works
Source: The Excursion,: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem
“His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.”
“And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.”
Source: 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 ...
Source: The Major Works
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)
Source: The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (text of 1805)
Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
“Death is the quiet haven of us all.”
Source: Poems of William Wordsworth
“The memory of the just survives in Heaven.”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
“And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.”
“Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.”
Source: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth