Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink I heard a voice it said Drink, pretty creature, drink'
William Wordsworth
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William Wordsworth
Age: 80 †
Born: 1770
Born: April 7
Died: 1850
Died: April 23
Lyricist
Poet
Cockermouth
Cumbria
Wordsworth
Fall
Began
Fast
Creatures
Drink
Pretty
Dew
Heard
Blink
Stars
Creature
Voice
Falling
More quotes by William Wordsworth
When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?
William Wordsworth
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will Dear God! the very houses seem asleep And all that mighty heart is lying still!
William Wordsworth
No motion has she now, no force she neither hears nor sees rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.
William Wordsworth
When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.
William Wordsworth
The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains.
William Wordsworth
I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man.
William Wordsworth
There is a comfort in the strength of love 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.
William Wordsworth
Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.
William Wordsworth
Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science
William Wordsworth
The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.
William Wordsworth
But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.
William Wordsworth
Spires whose silent finger points to heaven.
William Wordsworth
Truths that wake To perish never
William Wordsworth
A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
William Wordsworth
Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
William Wordsworth
Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.
William Wordsworth
How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!
William Wordsworth
My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they pass, I question things and do not find, one that will answer to my mind, And all the world appears unkind.
William Wordsworth
The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.
William Wordsworth
Miss not the occasion by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time.
William Wordsworth
