“Oh, be wise, Thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth Series
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Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
“O dearer far than light and life are dear.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: 1823-1833
“While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.”
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 ...
“one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.”
Source: Poems
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 ...
“Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods.”
“All that we behold is full of blessings.”
Source: Wordsworth: 'Daffodils' and Other Poems
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, In: 1801-1805
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
“Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
“Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.”
Source: Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author
“Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
“Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.”
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
“'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!”
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 Primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him And it was something more.”
“Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.”
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: 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
“For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)
“Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.”
“A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.”
Source: The Sonnets of William Wordsworth: Collected in One Volume, with a Few Additional Ones, Now First Published
“Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time.”
Source: The Select Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
“What know we of the Blest above but that they sing, and that they love?”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
Source: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc
Source: A Wordsworth Selection
“The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
Source: William Wordsworth: Everyman's Poetry
“To the solid ground Of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye.”
“Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth