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
admiration ascend dignity hope wisely
We live by admiration, hope and love; and even as these are well and wisely fixed, in dignity of being we ascend
beloved childish con records shall
Beloved Vale, I said, When I shall con those many records of my childish years
blessings eternal gave
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise,Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!
bliss dawn
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,But to be young was very heaven!
beside grew human sweetest
The sweetest thing that ever grew / Beside a human door!
bow custom growing life light moves potent substitute universe vulgar weight
The tendency, too potent in itself,Of use and custom to bow down the soulUnder a growing weight of vulgar sense,And substitute a universe of deathFor that which moves with light and life informed,Actual, divine, and true.
fixed man open solitary wind
As if the man had fixed his face,In many a solitary place,Against the wind and open sky!
continuous stars twinkle
Continuous as the stars that shine/ And twinkle on the milky way.
embodied motions mystery visionary
Visionary power/ Attends the motions of the viewless winds,/ Embodied in the mystery of words.
apt autumn life morning solemn summer tale taught within
There's not a nook within this solemn pass/ But were an apt confessional for one/ Taught by his summer spent, his autumn gone,/ That life is but a tale of morning grass/ Withered at eve.
hath known lives
There's not a manThat lives who hath not known his god-like hours.
brains dim modes unknown
My brainWorked with a dim and undetermined senseOf unknown modes of being.
arms happy man wish
Who is the happy Warrior? Who is heThat every man in arms should wish to be?
english-poet nearer stoop wisdom
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.