Quotes from William Wordsworth

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:England hath need of thee: she is a fenOf stagnant waters.

That best portion of a good man's life,His little, nameless, unremembered actsOf kindness and of love.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

Knowing that Nature never did betray. The heart that loved her.

While with an eye made quiet by the powerOf harmony, and the deep power of joy,We see into the life of things.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

But hushed be every thought that springsFrom out the bitterness of things.

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

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!

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:The soul that rises with us, our life's star,Hath had elsewhere its setting,And cometh from afar:Not in entire forgetfulness,And not in utter nakedness,But trailing clouds of glory do we comeFrom God, who is our home:Heaven lies about us in our infancy!Shades of the prison-house begin to closeUpon the growing boy.

Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong;And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.

My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.