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
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.
wise mind divine
Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness
kindness shadow sun
The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.
running gratitude heart
The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. -I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.
men joy singers
A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.
children father heart
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
baby lying heaven
Heaven lies about us in our infancy.