William Wordsworth Quotes

21st May – a glorious day for beauty. I wish you could see how lovely our country is at this fine season.

With what nice care equivalents are given, How just, how bountiful, the hand of Heaven.

Before us lay a painful road, And guidance have I sought in duteous love From Wisdom’s heavenly Father. Hence hath flowed Patience, with trust that, whatsoever the way Each takes in this high matter, all may move Cheered with the prospect of a brighter day.

The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.

Oh! if within me hope should e’er decline, The lamp of faith, lost Friend! too faintly burn; The may that heaven-revealing smile of thine, The bright assurance, visibly return: And let my spirit in that power divine Rejoice, as, through that power, it ceased to mourn.