Romantic Poetry Quotes

Front 1

Late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;

Back 1

The World is Too Much with Us
Wordsworth

Front 2

Little we see in Nature that is ours,
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

Back 2

The World is Too Much with Us
Wordsworth

Front 3

The Child is father of the Man;

Back 3

My Heart Leaps Up
Wordsworth

Front 4

And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.

Back 4

My Heart Leaps Up
Wordsworth

Front 5

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

Back 5

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Wordsworth

Front 6

When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;

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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Wordsworth

Front 7

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Back 7

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Wordsworth

Front 8

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,

Back 8

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Wordsworth

Front 9

They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;

Back 9

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Wordsworth

Front 10

And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils

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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Wordsworth

Front 11

Water, water, everywhere
And all the boards did shrink;

Back 11

The Rime of the Acient Mariner
Coleridge

Front 12

Nor any drop to drink.

Back 12

The Rime of the Acient Mariner
Coleridge

Front 13

He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;

Back 13

The Rime of the Acient Mariner
Coleridge

Front 14

For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.

Back 14

The Rime of the Acient Mariner
Coleridge

Front 15

Hail to thee blithe spirit!

Back 15

To a Skylark
Shelley

Front 16

That from heaven, or near it,
Pourest they full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

Back 16

To a Skylark
Shelley

Front 17

We look before and after,
and pine for what is not;

Back 17

To a Skylark
Shelley

Front 18

Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;

Back 18

To a Skylark
Shelley

Front 19

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Back 19

To a Skylark
Shelley

Front 20

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Back 20

Ode to the West Wind
Shelley

Front 21

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" -- that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Back 21

Ode on a Grecian Urn
Keats

Front 22

The greatest English lyricist

Back 22

Shelley

Front 23

Master at expressing emotions

Back 23

Shelley

Front 24

Wrote Prometheus Unbound and Adonais

Back 24

Shelley

Front 25

Lived rebelliously

Back 25

Shelley

Front 26

noble family

Back 26

Shelley

Front 27

Oxford... Necessity of Atheism

Back 27

Shelley

Front 28

Eloped

Back 28

Shelley

Front 29

Humble birth

Back 29

Keats

Front 30

Studied medicine

Back 30

Keats

Front 31

Influenced by Hunt

Back 31

Keats

Front 32

Worshiped beauty

Back 32

Keats

Front 33

Unsurpassed use of rich sensual imagery

Back 33

Keats

Front 34

"negative capability"

Back 34

Keats

Front 35

Could have rivaled Shakespeare

Back 35

Keats