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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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“As in the eye of Nature he has lived,
So in the eye of Nature let him die!”

The Old Cumberland Beggar.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Minds that have nothing to confer
Find little to perceive.”

Yes, Thou art Fair, Yet Be Not Moved, st. 2 (1845).

“Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.”

To a Butterfly (I've Watched You Now a Full Half-Hour), st. 2 (1801).

“And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law
In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.”

Quelle: Character of the Happy Warrior http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww302.html (1806), Line 53.

“What is pride? A whizzing rocket
That would emulate a star.”

Inscriptions Supposed to be Found in and near a Hermit's Cell, l. 11 (1818).

“Nor less I deem that there are Powers
Which of themselves our minds impress;
That we can feed this mind of ours
In a wise passiveness.”

William Wordsworth buch Lyrical Ballads

Expostulation and Reply, st. 6 (1798).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

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

Sky-Prospect from the Plain of France.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong;
And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.”

William Wordsworth buch Poems, in Two Volumes

Stanza 7. http://books.google.com/books?id=pzgJAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Thou+dost+preserve+the+stars+from+wrong+And+the+most+ancient+heavens+through+Thee+are+fresh+and+strong%22&pg=PA73#v=onepage
Ode to Duty http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww271.html (1805)

“Lady of the Mere,
Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.”

A Narrow Girdle of Rough Stones and Crags, l. 37 (1803).

“Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.”

Actually Night I, line 390 of Edward Young's Night Thoughts.
Misattributed

“To the solid ground
Of Nature trusts the mind that builds for aye.”

A Volant Tribe of Bards on Earth.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.”

Stanza 2.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww260.html (1804)

“One of those heavenly days that cannot die.”

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

“How blessings brighten as they take their flight!”

Occasionally misattributed to Wordsworth, but in fact by Edward Young again. It is from his Night Thoughts, Night II, line 602.
Misattributed

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