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
fever hung
The fretful stirUnprofitable, and the fever of the worldHave hung upon the beatings of my 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.
uplifting love-is light
Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security.
wise sacrifice self
Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!
pain loss sorrow
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.
pride sorrow pleasure
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
blessing delight earth
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.
angel light perfect
A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light
accomplishment vision divine
The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.
life eye blood
Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.