873 Quotes by William Wordsworth

While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.

The waves beside them danced; but they/ Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:/ A poet could not but be gay,/ In such a jocund company.

The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire, Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay With his red stalks upon this sunny day!

O dearer far than light and life are dear.

A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.

Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;The winds that will be howling at all hours,And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;For this, for everything, we are out of tune.