William Wordsworth Time Quotations

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

The holy time is quiet as a nunBreathless with adoration.

On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.

The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.

She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.

That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.

The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

Delivered from the galling yoke of time.

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.