The quotations of

William Wordsworth

English Romantic poet

1770–1850

26 quotes, most often on Nature, Love and Patriotism.

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
The World Is Too Much with Us (1807)In context
- Money
- Nature
Earth has not any thing to shew more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in it’s majesty:
This City now doth like a garment wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Composed upon Westminster Bridge (1807)In context
- Beauty
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!
Composed upon Westminster Bridge (1807)In context
- Beauty
- Nature
Milton! thou should’st be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee
London, 1802 (1807)In context
- Patriotism
- Poetry
The Child is Father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
My Heart Leaps Up (1807)In context
- Age
- Children
I listen’d till I had my fill:
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
The Solitary Reaper (1807)In context
- Music
She dwelt among th’ untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love.
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways (1800)In context
- Love
She liv’d unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceas’d to be;
But she is in her Grave, and Oh!
The difference to me.
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways (1800)In context
- Life & Death
- Love
A simple child, dear brother Jim,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?
We Are Seven (1798)In context
- Children
- Life & Death
The sunshine is a glorious birth;
But yet I know, where’er I go,
That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
Ode: Intimations of Immortality (1807)In context
- Change
- Nature
Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn
Have sight of Proteus coming from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
The World Is Too Much with Us (1807)In context
- Nature
- Religion

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