The quotations of

William Wordsworth

English Romantic poet

1770–1850

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

To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Ode: Intimations of Immortality (1807), “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” (1807)In context
- Nature
And ‘t is my faith, that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Lines written in Early Spring
- Nature
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky
My Heart Leaps Up (The Rainbow), ll. 1-2 (wr. 1802; pub. 1807)In context
- Happiness
- Nature
I wandered lonely as a Cloud
That floats on high o’er Vales and Hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden Daffodils;
Beside the Lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1807)In context
- Nature
For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity,
Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue.
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)In context
- Maturity
- Nature
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it has been of yore;⁠—
Turn wheresoe’er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Ode: Intimations of Immortality (1807)In context
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
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
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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