Quote

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

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
Dancing
Flower
Pensive
Daffodil
Fluttering
Breeze

More quotes by William Wordsworth

Image
Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
William Wordsworth
Image
The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone
William Wordsworth
Image
And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
William Wordsworth
Image
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!
William Wordsworth
Image
Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being's heart and home,Is with infinitude, and only thereWith hope it is, hope that can never die,Effort and expectation, and desire,And something evermore about to be.
William Wordsworth
Image
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
William Wordsworth
Image
A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.
William Wordsworth
Image
Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain.
William Wordsworth
Image
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
William Wordsworth
Image
Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.
William Wordsworth
Image
Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave.
William Wordsworth
Image
A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
William Wordsworth
Image
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.
William Wordsworth
Image
Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
William Wordsworth
Image
Pleasures newly found are sweet When they lie about our feet.
William Wordsworth
Image
A tale in everything.
William Wordsworth
Image
Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains and of all that we behold from this green earth.
William Wordsworth
Image
Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.
William Wordsworth
Image
My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
William Wordsworth
Image
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