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  • The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow.

    Moon   Snow   Hills  
    Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Trevelyan Moorman (1971). “Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: the Alfoxden journal, 1798; the Grasmere journals, 1800-1803”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest.

    Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth (2007). “Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.258, Penguin UK
  • The moon shone like herrings in the water.

    Moon   Water   Herring  
    Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Trevelyan Moorman (1971). “Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: the Alfoxden journal, 1798; the Grasmere journals, 1800-1803”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.

    Dorothy Wordsworth, Alan G. Hill (1981). “Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Selection”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
  • The moon had the old moon in her arms.

    Moon   Arms  
    Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.96, Oxford University Press
  • Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.

    Light   Tree   Ruins  
    Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.141, Oxford University Press
  • Every question was like the snapping of a little thread about my heart.

    Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.84, Oxford University Press
  • I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. The little slender flower had more courage than the green leaves, for they were but half expanded and half grown, but the blossom was spread full out. I uprooted it rashly, and I felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again. It will have but a stormy life of it, but let it live if it can.

    Flower   Rocks   Half  
    Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.61, Oxford University Press
  • I verily believe that I never took infant in my arms that did not the moment it was there by its cries beg to be removed.

    Believe   Arms   Cry  
    Dorothy Wordsworth, Alan G. Hill (1981). “Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Selection”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
  • The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are now at rest, Save thee, my pretty love!

    Good Night   Song   Wind  
    William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.160
  • I went through the fields, and sat for an hour afraid to pass a cow. The cow looked at me, and I looked at the cow, and whenever I stirred the cow gave over eating.

    Cows   Fields   Eating  
    Dorothy Wordsworth (1987). “The Grasmere journal”, Michael Joseph
  • I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness.

    Beautiful   Stones   Saws  
    "Grasmere Journal," 15 Apr. 1802 SeeWilliamWordsworth 25
  • It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.

    Summer   Nature   Real  
    Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.130, Oxford University Press
  • I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. I uprooted it rashly and felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again.

    Rocks   May   Outrage  
    Dorothy Wordsworth (2009). “Dorothy Wordsworth”, Longman Publishing Group
  • Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited solitudes.

    Country   Men   Scotland  
    Dorothy Wordsworth (1875). “Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A.D. 1803”, p.26
  • When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there were more and yet more and at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a county turnpike toad. I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew about the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake.

    'The Grasmere Journals' 15 April 1802.
  • An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.

    Mean   Enemy   Causes  
    William Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt, Dorothy Wordsworth, Shaver, Chester L (1988). “The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth”, Clarendon Press
  • I've been a dweller on the plains, have sighed when summer days were gone; No more I'll sigh; for winter here Hath gladsome gardens of his own.

    Summer   Winter   Garden  
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