William Wordsworth Light Quotations

Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!/ O Duty! if that name thou love/ Who art a light to guide, a rod/ To check the erring and reprove.

The tendency, too potent in itself,Of use and custom to bow down the soulUnder a growing weight of vulgar sense,And substitute a universe of deathFor that which moves with light and life informed,Actual, divine, and true.

Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!

His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.

Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.

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

That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.

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.

At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.

O dearer far than light and life are dear.

A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light

Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security.