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William Wordsworth war ein britischer Dichter und führendes Mitglied der englischen Romantikbewegung, die er 1798 durch die zusammen mit Samuel Taylor Coleridge verfassten Lyrical Ballads initiierte. Als sein Meisterwerk gilt das frühe autobiografische Gedicht The Prelude .

✵ 7. April 1770 – 23. April 1850   •   Andere Namen Уильям Вордсворт, ویلیام وردزورث
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„Du schaust umher auf unsrer Mutter Erde,// als wärst ohn’ Daseinszweck Du Erdenwesen,// als wären hinterlassen Dir nicht Werte,// und vor dir keiner wär gewesen!“

Expostulation and Reply - Vorhaltung und Erwiderung, c. 1798, p. 1798 in Lyrical Ballade , william-wordsworth.de http://william-wordsworth.de/translations/expostulation%20and%20Reply.html

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“Maidens withering on the stalk.”

Personal Talk, Stanza 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The cattle are grazing,
Their heads never raising;
There are forty feeding like one!”

The Cock is crowing.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.”

Hart-leap Well, part ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd;
He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.”

Another couplet from Edward Young: this time Night Thoughts, Night II, line 160.
Misattributed

“Full twenty times was Peter feared,
For once that Peter was respected.”

William Wordsworth Peter Bell

Peter Bell, Part I, stanza 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“A light to guide, a rod
To check the erring, and reprove.”

Stanza 1.
Ode to Duty http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww271.html (1805)

“But hushed be every thought that springs
From out the bitterness of things.”

Elegiac Stanzas. Addressed to Sir G.H.B., st. 7 (1824).

“Choice word and measured phrase, above the reach
Of ordinary men.”

Stanza 14.
Resolution and Independence (1807)

“May no rude hand deface it,
And its forlorn Hic jacet!”

William Wordsworth buch Lyrical Ballads

Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle, st. 7 (1800).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

“Until a man might travel twelve stout miles,
Or reap an acre of his neighbor's corn.”

The Brothers.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“And sings a solitary song
That whistles in the wind.”

William Wordsworth buch Lyrical Ballads

Lucy Gray, or Solitude, st. 16 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

“In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.”

William Wordsworth buch Lyrical Ballads

Quelle: Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines Written in Early Spring, st. 1 (1798).

“She hath smiles to earth unknown—
Smiles that with motion of their own
Do spread, and sink, and rise.”

Cancelled lines originally in the second stanza of Louisa (1805).

“And stepping westward seemed to be
A kind of heavenly destiny.”

Stepping Westward, st. 2.
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland (1803)

“We meet thee, like a pleasant thought,
When such are wanted.”

To the Daisy.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.”

The Borderers Act iv. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Soft is the music that would charm forever;
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”

Not Love, not War.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.

“The Eagle, he was lord above,
And Rob was lord below.”

Rob Roy's Grave, st. 14.
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland (1803)

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