William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworthwas a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth7 April 1770
murmurs music near running sweeter
He murmurs near the running brooksA music sweeter than their own.
impatient joy share surprised wished
Surprised by joy -- impatient as the windI wished to share the transport.
art check daughter light name stern thou voice
Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!/ O Duty! if that name thou love/ Who art a light to guide, a rod/ To check the erring and reprove.
destiny heavenly seemed stepping westward
Stepping westward seemed to be/ A kind of heavenly destiny.
blessed burden heavy mystery weary
That blessed mood,In which the burden of the mystery,In which the heavy and the weary weightOf all this unintelligible world,Is lightened.
elude mark second wonder
Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none;Look up a second time, and, one by one,You mark them twinkling out with silvery light,And wonder how they could elude the sight!
elude mark second wonder
Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; Look up a second time, and, one by one, You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, And wonder how they could elude the sight!
bitterness
But hushed be every thought that springsFrom out the bitterness of things.
behold gently singing single solitary
Behold her, single in the field,Yon solitary Highland lass!Reaping and singing by herself;Stop here, or gently pass!
comfort nobly perfect spirit
A perfect woman, nobly planned,To warn, to comfort, and command;And yet a Spirit still, and brightWith something of angelic light.
circles glittering idly melted small until
Small circles glittering idly in the moon,/ Until they melted all into one track/ Of sparkling light.
build
So build we up the being that we are.
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The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
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The things which I have seen I now can see no more.