William Wordsworth (1770-1850 / Cumberland / England)

poet William Wordsworth
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Quotations

  • ''My heart leaps up when I behold
    A rainbow in the sky:
    So was it when my life began;
    So is it now I am a man;
    So be it when I shall grow old,
    Or let me die!
    The Child is father of the Man;
    And I could wish my days to be
    Bound each to each by natural piety.''
    William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. "My Heart Leaps Up," (1807).
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  • ''The power, which all
    Acknowledge when thus moved, which Nature thus
    To bodily sense exhibits, is the express
    Resemblance of that glorious faculty
    That higher minds bear with them as their own.''
    William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. The Prelude; XIV. Conclusion (l. 33-37). . . English Romantic Poetry and Prose. Russell Noyes, ed. (1956) Oxford University Press.
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The Sparrow's Nest

BEHOLD, within the leafy shade,
Those bright blue eggs together laid!
On me the chance-discovered sight
Gleamed like a vision of delight.
I started---seeming to espy
The home and sheltered bed,
The Sparrow's dwelling, which, hard by
My Father' house, in wet or dry
My sister Emmeline and I

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