101 Famous Quotes by William Wordsworth
4/7/1770 - 4/23/1850
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About William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.
Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as the poem "to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
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Much converse do I find in thee,
Historian of my infancy!
Float near me; do not yet depart!
Dead times revive in thee:
Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art!
A solemn image to my heart.
Butterflies
Quotes, by William Wordsworth , Source: To a Butterfly
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Methought I say the footsteps of a throne.
- William Wordsworth,
Footsteps
Quotes, by William Wordsworth , Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets--Methought I Saw the Footsteps of a Throne
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She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love.
Obscurity
Quotes, by William Wordsworth , Source: She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
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Small service is true service while it lasts:
Of humblest friends, bright Creature! scorn not one;
The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts,
Protects the lingering dew drop from the Sun.
Service
Quotes, by William Wordsworth , Source: To a Child: Written in Her Album
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The primal duties shine aloft, like stars;
The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless
Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.
Duty
Quotes, by William Wordsworth , Source: Excursion (bk. IX)
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Give unto me, made lowly wise,
The spirit of self-sacrifice;
The confidence of reason give;
And in the light of truth thy
Bondman let me live!
Duty
Quotes, by William Wordsworth , Source: Ode to Duty
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On that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
Kindness
Quotes, by William Wordsworth , Source: Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
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Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped--to gird
An English sovereign's brow! and to the throne
Whereon he sits! whose deep foundations lie
In veneration and the people's love.
Royalty
Quotes, by William Wordsworth , Source: Excursion (bk. IV)
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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
Intellect
Quotes, by William Wordsworth , Source: Borderers, written 18 years before "Excursion"
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Brook! whose society the poet seeks,
Intent his wasted spirits to renew;
And whom the curious painter doth pursue
Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks,
And tracks thee dancing down thy water-breaks.
Brooks
Quotes, by William Wordsworth , Source: Brook! Whose Society the Poet Seeks
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The cattle are grazing,
Their heads never raising:
There are forty feeding like one!
Cows
Quotes, by William Wordsworth , Source: The Cock is Crowing
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List--'twas the cuckoo--O, with what delight
Heard I that voice! and catch it now, though faint,
Far off and faint, and melting into air,
Yet not to be mistaken. Hark again!
Those louder cries give notice that the bird,
Although invisible as Echo's self,
Is wheeling hitherward.
Cuckoos
Quotes, by William Wordsworth , Source: The Cuckoo at Laverna
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O blithe New-comer! I have heard,
I hear thee and rejoice;
O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,
Or but a wandering Voice?
Cuckoos
Quotes, by William Wordsworth , Source: To the Cuckoo
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As thou these ashes, little brook! will bear
Into the Avon, Avon to the tide
Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,
Into main ocean they, this deed accurst,
An emblem yields to friends and enemies
How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified
By truth, shall spread throughout the world dispersed.
Doctrine
Quotes, by William Wordsworth , Source: Ecclesiastical Sketches (pt. II, Wicliffe)
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Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee,
And was the safeguard of the West.
Venice
Quotes, by William Wordsworth , Source: Sonnet on the extinction of the Venetian Republic
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