| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 65433 |
| QUOTATION: | No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course,
With rocks, and stones, and trees. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William Wordsworth (1770–1850), British poet. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, st. 2 (1800).
This verse has been the subject of a literary dispute centering on Wordsworth’s pantheism: is the death of the girl (Lucy) terrible because she is as inanimate as the earth’s inert objects, or consoling because she is one with nature? |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Wordsworth Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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