William Wordsworth Quotes About Birth

Quotes about: Birth

• 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.

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Sleep, Afterlife

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

  William Wordsworth

  Inspirational, Baby, Sleep

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

• The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

  William Wordsworth

  Sunshine, Earth, Passed Away

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 1

• Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.

  William Wordsworth

  Vanity, Earth, Evening

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.267

• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

  William Wordsworth

  Sleep, Afterlife, Infancy Is

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

• The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Eye, Dark

  1837 'At Bologna, In Remembrance of the Late Insurrections: Continued', l.12-14 (published 1842).

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