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 self feels
Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.
noble nobility perpetual
Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.
faith sweet flower
Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.
prayer spring dark
"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?
death heavenly dies
One of those heavenly days that cannot die.
nature felicity
Nature's old felicities.
mind littles perceive
Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.
heart men thinking
And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.
memories heaven
The memory of the just survives in Heaven.
music running brooks
He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.
son cities confusion
Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity.
eye thoughtful breathing
And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.
mind silent tales
O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.
gratitude money men
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.