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William Wordsworth on Music

1770–1850 England

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Sweetest melodies
Are those that are by distance made more sweet.

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

Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

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

Soft is the music that would charm forever;
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.

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

When his veering gait
And every motion of his starry train
Seem governed by a strain
Of music, audible to him alone.

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

Is there not
An art, a music, and a stream of words
That shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

The Recluse (1805)

He murmurs near the running brooks
A music sweeter than their own.

A Poet's Epitaph (1799)

Where music dwells
Lingering and wandering on as loth to die,
Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof
That they were born for immortality.

Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1821)

The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.

I listened, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.

Memorials of a Tour in Scotland (1803)

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