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
nature educational men
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
sea forever mind
A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
children father men
The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
heart clouds missing
The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way.
poetry spirit breaths
poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge
heaven alive dawn
Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.
summer death heart
The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.
life death children
A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?
love being-strong heart
There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.
forgiveness body haunting
From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
beauty morning lying
This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
pagan
Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan....
sweet nature book
Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.
beautiful men mind
The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.