10 William Wordsworth Quotes on Loss

William Wordsworth quotes on loss

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

99. What fond and wayward thoughts will slide Into a lover's head! 'O mercy!' to myself I cried, 'If Lucy should be dead!'

101. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!

110. My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.

118. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all.- I cannot paint What then I was.

162. There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore- Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

163. The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose, The Moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath past away a glory from the earth.

165. Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

197. How blessings brighten as they take their flight!

200. We take no note of time but from its loss.