873 Quotes by William Wordsworth

That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.

Action is transitory a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed

Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.

[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.

Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.

I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.

She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.

My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.