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Dorothy Wordsworth
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“The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow.”
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“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 solitudes.”
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“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.”
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“One only leaf upon the top of a tree — the sole remaining leaf — danced round and round like a rag blown by the wind.”
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“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 gave over eating.”
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“ 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, for weariness ... ”
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“The moon had the old moon in her arms ... ”
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“The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest.”
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“Mary first met us in the avenue. She looked so fat and well that we were made very happy by the sight of her ... ”
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“... 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.”
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“Blessings on that brother of mine!”
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“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 grown, but the blossom was spread full out. I uprooted it rashly, and I felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again. It will have but a stormy life of it, but let it live if it can.”
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“Every question was like the snapping of a little thread about my heart.”
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“The moon shone like herrings in the water.”
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“... 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.”
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“ ... I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.”
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“An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.”
Dorothy Wordsworth, English diarist, poet
(1771 - 1855)