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
earth four morning
Four years and thirty, told this very week,Have I been now a sojourner on earth,And yet the morning gladness is not goneWhich then was in my mind.
ankles weak
For still, the more he works, the moreDo his weak ankles swell.
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!
brains dim modes unknown
My brainWorked with a dim and undetermined senseOf unknown modes of being.
arms happy man wish
Who is the happy Warrior? Who is heThat every man in arms should wish to be?
english-poet nearer stoop wisdom
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
nearer oft soar stoop wisdom
Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar
company doomed glorious miserable necessity
Who, doomed to go in company with Pain,And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train!Turns his necessity to glorious gain.
glory visionary
Whither is fled the visionary gleam?Where is it now, the glory and the dream?
soul thy
Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart.
fill future present within
We have within ourselvesEnough to fill the present day with joy,And overspread the future years with hope.
heaven kindred points soar type wise
Type of the wise who soar but never roam;True to the kindred points of heaven and home.