William Wordsworth Quotes About Mountain

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  • Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.

    1798 'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye', l.102-6.
  • The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains.

    c.1800 The Priest. 'The Brothers', l.182-3.
  • Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.

    'Two Voices are there' (1807)
  • Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping — anon — anon! There's joy in the mountains: There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone.

    William Wordsworth, Stephen Gill (2000). “The Major Works”, p.248, Oxford University Press, USA
  • I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

    William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.76
  • Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep And, Wordsworth, both are thine.

    William Wordsworth (1954). “The prelude: with a selection from the shorter poems, the sonnets, The recluse, and The excursion, and three essays on the art of poetry”, Harcourt College Pub
  • The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a love that had no need of a remoter charm by thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.

    'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 72
  • Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.

    William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.194
  • I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

    'Resolution and Independence' (1807) st. 7
  • That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone!

    1844 'So fair so sweet', stanza 2 (published 1845).
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