“The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.”
Source: William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude
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“His love was like the liberal air, embracing all, to cheer and bless.”
“Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.”
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: Poems of William Wordsworth
“Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.”
“Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.”
Source: The Excursion,: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England
“A brotherhood of venerable trees.”
Source: The poetical works of William Wordsworth ...
“Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)
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: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth Series
“[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.”
“O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ...
“But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works
“Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.”
“Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.”
Source: Poems
“There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.”
“As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave!”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
Source: The Poetical works
“At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.”
“Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.”
Source: Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author
“Wisdom married to immortal verse.”
Source: The Excursion,: Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem
“There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.”
“The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.”
“A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“A Briton even in love should be A subject, not a slave!”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
“Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.”
Source: The 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 ...
“And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.”
Source: The Poetical 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
“Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth