The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Armoury of the invincible Knights of old:
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held.—In everything we are sprung
Of Earth’s first blood, have titles manifold.
‘It is not to be thought of’ (1807)
I travelled among unknown men
In lands beyond the sea;
Nor, England! did I know till then
What love I bore to thee.
‘I travelled among unknown men’ (1807)
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ (1807).
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth to me the show had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ (1807)
Jones! as from Calais southward you and I
Went pacing side by side, this public Way
Streamed with the pomp of a too-credulous day.
‘Jones! as from Calais’ (1807) (referring to 14 July 1790)
The gods approve
The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.
‘Laodamia’ (1815) l. 74
Of all that is most beauteous—imaged there
In happier beauty; more pellucid streams,
An ampler ether, a diviner air,
And fields invested with purpureal gleams.