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
men cloaks old-man
Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.
soul distress my-soul
A deep distress has humanised my soul.
intellectual way intellect
The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!
sweet home lakes
Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!
daisies thee wanted
We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.
profound secret cups
Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound.
power earth passing
A power is passing from the earth.
sea forever mind
Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.
years mind philosophic
In years that bring the philosophic mind.
art moving perception
Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature...
sweet kindness heart
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration:—feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love....
squares splits intellect
But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?
truth favourite misers
To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!
men choices phrases
Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men.