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
eye ears body
The eye— it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our will.
life ocean men
I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man...
murder form intellect
Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect
heart men sky
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;
home cooking tables
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
Love betters what is best
lying eye solitude
For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude
stars pride rockets
What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
thinking idols adore
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
sweet nature shapes
Sweet is the lore which nature brings, our meddeling interlect mis-shapes the beautious forms of things. we murder to dissect
children father men
The child is father of the man.
war suffering without-hope
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
love birthday time
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
beauty perception mind
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.