William Wordsworth Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

  William Wordsworth

  I Love You, Birthday, Marriage

• 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.

  William Wordsworth

  Strength, Sympathy, Time

  William Wordsworth, “Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood”

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

  William Wordsworth

  Birthday, Wise, Time

  William Wordsworth, “Fountain, The: A Conversation”

• Delivered from the galling yoke of time.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Yoke

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth:: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author. With Additional Poems, a New Preface, and a Supplementary Essay. In Two Volumes”, p.232

• It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Sea, Heaven

  1802 'It is a beauteous evening calm and free', l.1-8 (published 1807).

• That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Hair, Crime

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.71

• She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Stars, Twilight

  1804 'She was a Phantom of delight', l.1-4 (published 1807).

• The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Quiet, Holy

  "It Is a Beauteous Evening" l. 1 (1807)

• On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Moving, Scene

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.197

• But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Birthday, Time

  'To a Young Lady' (1802)

• Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Lying, Boys

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

• The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Past, Years

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 9

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