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
knowing men
How men livedEven next-door neighbors, as we say, yet stillStrangers, not knowing each the other's name.
bold sanctified shall throughout
How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed
cottage evening named
The cottage which was named the Evening Star/ Is gone.
birth deeper impulses
Impulses of deeper birth have come to him in solitude.
gods
The gods approveThe depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.
burn die dry dust good hearts summer whose
The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket
fever hung
The fretful stirUnprofitable, and the fever of the worldHave hung upon the beatings of my heart.
common earth growth humblest mirth mother
The common growth of Mother EarthSuffices me, -- her tears, her mirth,Her humblest mirth and tears.
grim living measured motion purpose
The grim shape/ Towered up between me and the stars, and still,/ For so it seemed, with purpose of its own/ And measured motion like a living thing,/ Strode after me.
heart man
And much it grieved my heart to thinkWhat Man has made of Man.
casting divine formal grandeur
And so the grandeur of the Forest-treeComes not by casting in a formal mould,But from its own divine vitality.
face glad joy wear
And often, glad no more,We wear a face of joy becauseWe have been glad of yore.
eye pulse
And now I see with eye sereneThe very pulse of the machine.
love sun
All things that love the sun are out of doors.