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
birth earthquake satisfied second
All things have second birth;The earthquake is not satisfied at once.
continued honorable men objects please
All men feel something of an honorable bigotry for the objects which have long continued to please them.
holy quiet time
The holy time is quiet as a nunBreathless with adoration.
cattle feeding forty heads
The cattle are grazing,Their heads never raising;There are forty feeding like one!
both half mighty
All the mighty world of eye, and ear, both what they half create, and what they percieve.
god love
The love of God is passionate. He pursues each of us even when we know it not.
acts best kindness love parts
The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
food homeless homes near tables thousand
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
common harvest quiet random round sleeps truths
In common things that round us lieSome random truths he can impart, --The harvest of a quiet eyeThat broods and sleeps on his own heart.
ideas immortality born
Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.
sympathy grief condolences
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
dream men mind
Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
death rocks tree
No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.
great-inspirational emotion poetry-is
Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.