Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.Ģ. Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. William Wordsworth - 1770-1850 My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began So is it now I am a man So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die The Child is father of the Man And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. You mark them twinkling out with silvery light,Īnd wonder how they could elude the sight! #8 My heart Leaps Upīound each to each by natural piety. Look for the stars, you’ll say that there are none I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility… #7 CALM IS THE FRAGRANT AIR, AND LOTH TO LOSE, Evening Voluntaries ħ. Williams poems, such as Lines and To My Sister, doesnt give any hint of this, but express his happiness, when she accompanied him on the walking thips: 'My sister tis a wish of mine) / Now that our morning meal is done, / Make haste, your morning task resign / Come forth and feel the sun. Appendix, prefaces, etc, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, 1870Ħ. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. #5 William Wordsworth: A Biography, Edwin Paxton Hood, 1856ĥ. Write to me frequently & the longest letters possible never mind whether you have facts or no to communicate fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. #4 Letter to Mary Wordsworth, 29 April 1812Ĥ. Nor leave thee, when grey hairs are nigh, I look-the sky is empty space I know not what I trace But when I cease to look, my hand is on my heart.

_ Sayings by William Wordsworth #1 The RecluseĪnd overspread the future years with hope… #2 To a Young Lady, 1803Ģ. The clouds pass on they from the heavens depart. 266 quotes from William Wordsworth: 'The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.', 'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.', and 'Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains. Would overset the brain, or break the heart #4 To Mary, 1824Įxcerpt from Wikipedia: William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. ‘Twill make a thing endurable, which else There is a comfort in the strength of love

#2 Poem: A Sparrow’s NestĪnd love, and thought, and joy. On that best portion of a good man’s life, #1 Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, 13 July 1798ġ. Credit: Wikipedia, William Wordsworth Love Quotes and Sayings William Wordsworth Love Quotes and Sayings

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