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Quotes from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed — William Wordsworth

1770–1850 England

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But he is risen, a later star of dawn.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

The bane of all that dread the Devil.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower
Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind
Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower,
And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud
And magnify thy name Almighty God!
But man is thy most awful instrument
In working out a pure intent.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Full twenty times was Peter feared,
For once that Peter was respected.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise,
Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!—
The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs
Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Often have I sighed to measure
By myself a lonely pleasure,—
Sighed to think I read a book,
Only read, perhaps, by me.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

A noticeable man, with large gray eyes.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Sad fancies do we then affect,
In luxury of disrespect
To our own prodigal excess
Of too familiar happiness.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Yet sometimes, when the secret cup
Of still and serious thought went round,
It seemed as if he drank it up,
He felt with spirit so profound.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Earth helped him with the cry of blood.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Maidens withering on the stalk.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

The gentle Lady married to the Moor,
And heavenly Una with her milk-white lamb.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Up! up! my friend, and quit your books,
Or surely you 'll grow double!
Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks!
Why all this toil and trouble?

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

The sightless Milton, with his hair
Around his placid temples curled;
And Shakespeare at his side,—a freight,
If clay could think and mind were weight,
For him who bore the world!

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Let beeves and home-bred kine partake
The sweets of Burn-mill meadow;
The swan on still St. Mary's Lake
Float double, swan and shadow!

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

The stars of midnight shall be dear
To her; and she shall lean her ear
In many a secret place
Where rivulets dance their wayward round,
And beauty born of murmuring sound
Shall pass into her face.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

A remnant of uneasy light.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

The monumental pomp of age
Was with this goodly personage;
A stature undepressed in size,
Unbent, which rather seemed to rise
In open victory o'er the weight
Of seventy years, to loftier height.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Wordsworth (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.