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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

5088 William Wordsworth 1770-1850 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:5088
AUTHOR:William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
QUOTATION:Where music dwells
Lingering and wandering on as loth to die,
Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof
That they were born for immortality.
ATTRIBUTION:Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Part iii. xliii.Inside of King’s Chapel, Cambridge.
WORKS:William Wordsworth Collection.