I went through the fields, and sat for an hour afraid to pass a cow. The cow looked at me, and I looked at the cow, and whenever I stirred the cow ga….

I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner..

I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. I uprooted it rashly and felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again..

Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited….

When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there were more and yet more and….

The moon shone like herrings in the water..

The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observe….

I verily believe that I never took infant in my arms that did not the moment it was there by its cries beg to be removed..

The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are now at rest, Save t….

An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end..

I've been a dweller on the plains, have sighed when summer days were gone; No more I'll sigh; for winter here Hath gladsome gardens of his own..

I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow,….

It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises..

Every question was like the snapping of a little thread about my heart..

The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow..

Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin..

The moon had the old moon in her arms..

I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. The little slender flower had more courage than the green leaves, for they were but half expanded and half gr….