William Wordsworth Earth Quotations

Three years she grew in sun and shower,/ Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower/ On earth was never sown;/ This child I to myself will take;/ She shall be mine, and I will make/ A Lady of my own.

No human ear shall ever hear me speak;No human dwelling ever give me food,Or sleep, or rest: but, over waste and wild,In search of nothing, that this earth can give,But expiation, will I wander on --A Man by pain and thought compelled to live,Yet loathing life -- till anger is appeasedIn Heaven, and Mercy gives me leave to die.

Four years and thirty, told this very week,Have I been now a sojourner on earth,And yet the morning gladness is not goneWhich then was in my mind.

The rapt one, of the godlike forehead,/ The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:/ And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle,/ Has vanished from his lonely hearth.

One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead

A youth to whom was givenSo much of earth, so much of heaven.And such impetuous blood.

The common growth of Mother EarthSuffices me, -- her tears, her mirth,Her humblest mirth and tears.

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.

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

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

A power is passing from the earth.

There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

Earth has not anything to show more fair.

A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.

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

Earth helped him with the cry of blood.

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.