6 William Wordsworth Quotes on History

William Wordsworth quotes on history

15. O for a single hour of that Dundee, Who on that day the word of onset gave!

48. Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee; And was the safeguard of the west: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty.

49. Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great, is passed away.

113. May no rude hand deface it, And its forlorn Hic jacet!

133. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!

191. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.