William Wordsworth Quotes About Death

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  • As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!

    William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.427
  • And mighty poets in their misery dead.

    'Resolution and Independence' (1807) st. 17
  • One of those heavenly days that cannot die.

    William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.142
  • Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

    William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.615
  • We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

    'It is not to be thought of' (1807)
  • No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.

    'A slumber did my spirit seal' (1800)
  • Death is the quiet haven of us all.

    William Wordsworth (1855). “Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.179
  • The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

    'The Excursion' (1814) bk. 1, l. 500
  • The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.

    William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.389
  • A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

    'We are Seven' (1798) (the words 'dear brother Jim' were omitted in the 1815 edition of his poems)
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