William Wordsworth Quotes

William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. ...more

Birth: April 07, 1770 - Death: April 23, 1850

A Primrose by a river’s brimA yellow primrose was to himAnd it was something more.

Father! – to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

Topic(s): Giving , Father , Names

Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

Topic(s): Mind , Faces , Forever

She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!

Topic(s): Knows , Life , Differences

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

Topic(s): Men , Long , Wealth

Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There’s more of wisdom in it.

Topic(s): Book , Nature , Sweet

Free as a bird to settle where I will.

Topic(s): Bird , Settling

The unconquerable pang of despised love.

Topic(s): Love , Despised , Unconquerable

The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

Topic(s): Men , Hair , Grey

Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.

Topic(s): Wise , Learning , Speech

Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.

Topic(s): Looks , Song , Flower

Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.

Topic(s): Humans , Evil , Faith

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William Wordsworth Quotes