Romantic Era quotes

Quotes from various Romantic authors
 

Away from Here

Submitted by scotese on Fri, 2006-10-06 14:22

If I should be where I no more can hear
Thy voice, nor catch from thy wild eyes these gleams
Of past existence -- wilt thou then forget
That on the banks of this delightful stream
We stood together; and that I, so long
A worshipper of Nature, hither came
Unwearied in that service.

William Wordsworth

Tintern Abbey

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Like gold to aery thinness beat

Submitted by Lisa_D on Sun, 2010-04-25 18:33

I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you ... it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your ... frame.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre

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Something to turn to

Submitted by scotese on Fri, 2006-10-06 14:12

If this
Be but a vain belief, yet, oh! how oft --
In darkness and amid the many shapes
Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world,
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart --
How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee,
O sylvan Wye!

 

William Wordsworth

Tintern Abbey

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Towards the Light

Submitted by scotese on Sun, 2008-08-24 15:35

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

William Wordsworth
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A wish for growing old.

Submitted by scotese on Sun, 2008-08-24 15:35

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

William Wordsworth
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Time Travel Part 2

Submitted by scotese on Sun, 2008-08-24 15:39

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.

William Wordsworth
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Submitted by elizabethbennet on Mon, 2007-10-01 18:16

Not Love, not War, nor tumultuous swell,

William Wordsworth
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True Love

Submitted by HollyinNNV on Sat, 2009-09-26 14:52

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights

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One thing that poetry is

Submitted by scotese on Sun, 2008-08-24 15:44

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth
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Why teachers stay forever young

Submitted by scotese on Fri, 2006-10-06 14:19

In thy voice I catch
The language of my former heart, and read
My former pleasures in the shooting lights
Of thy wild eyes. Oh! yet a little while
May I behold in thee what I was once...

William Wordsworth

Tintern Abbey

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