| 101 Famous Quotes by William Wordsworth
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“Like--but oh! how different!”
Echo Quotes Source: Yes, it Was the Mountain Echo
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“But shapes that come not at an earthly call,
Will not depart when mortal voices bid.”
Visions Quotes Source: Dion (V)
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“O joy! that in our embers
Is something that doth live.”
Fire Quotes Source: Ode (IV, 53), (Knight's edition)
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“The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration.”
Evening Quotes Source: It is a Beauteous Evening
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“Methought I say the footsteps of a throne.
- William Wordsworth,”
Footsteps Quotes 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 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 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 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 Source: Ode to Duty
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“Stern Daughter of the Voice of God.”
Duty Quotes Source: Ode to Duty
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“Who art a light to guide, a rod
To check the erring, and reprove.”
Duty Quotes 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 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 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 Source: Borderers, written 18 years before "Excursion"
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“The intellectual power, through words and things,
Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!”
Intellect Quotes Source: Excursion (bk. III)
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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 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 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 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 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 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 Source: Sonnet on the extinction of the Venetian Republic
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“From Stirling Castle we had seen
The mazy Forth unravelled;
Had trod the banks of Clyde and Tay,
And with the Tweed had travelled;
And when we came to Clovenford,
Then said "my winsome marrow,"
"Whate'er betide, we'll turn aside,
And see the braes of Yarrow."”
Rivers Quotes Source: Yarrow Unvisited
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“The feather, whence the pen
Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men,
Dropped from an Angel's wing.”
Pen Quotes Source: Ecclesiastical Sonnets (pt. III, V, Walton's Book of Lives)
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“A cheerful life is what the Muses love,
A soaring spirit is their prime delight.”
Cheerfulness Quotes Source: From the Dark Chambers
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“And she hath smiles to earth unknown--
Smiles that with motion of their own
Do spread, and sink, and rise.”
Smiles Quotes Source: I met Louisa in the Shade (st. 2), (afterwards cancelled by him, not found in complete edition of po
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