Quote

Before us lay a painful road, And guidance have I sought in duteous love From Wisdom's heavenly Father. Hence hath flowed Patience, with trust that, whatsoe'er the way Each takes in this high matter, all may move Cheered with the prospect of a brighter day.

William Wordsworth

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Wordsworth
Age: 80 †
Born: 1770
Born: April 7
Died: 1850
Died: April 23
Lyricist
Poet
Cockermouth
Cumbria
Wordsworth
Love
Takes
Guidance
Wisdom
Heavenly
Cheered
High
Lays
Flowed
Moving
Patience
Prospect
Father
Painful
Brighter
May
Road
Sought
Matter
Move
Hence
Way
Trust
Hath

More quotes by William Wordsworth

Image
With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.
William Wordsworth
Image
The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.
William Wordsworth
Image
'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!
William Wordsworth
Image
Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
William Wordsworth
Image
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
William Wordsworth
Image
In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
William Wordsworth
Image
She gave me eyes, she gave me ears And humble cares, and delicate fears A heart, the fountain of sweet tears And love and thought and joy.
William Wordsworth
Image
Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.
William Wordsworth
Image
I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.
William Wordsworth
Image
As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!
William Wordsworth
Image
Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.
William Wordsworth
Image
Small service is true service, while it lasts.
William Wordsworth
Image
One of those heavenly days that cannot die.
William Wordsworth
Image
I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.
William Wordsworth
Image
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
William Wordsworth
Image
The budding rose above the rose full blown.
William Wordsworth
Image
The unconquerable pang of despised love.
William Wordsworth
Image
He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.
William Wordsworth
Image
Primroses, the Spring may love them Summer knows but little of them.
William Wordsworth
Image
She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!
William Wordsworth