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
children father men
The child is the father of man.
war army snow
Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.
heaven silence silent
Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven."
art garden may
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
flower yellow rivers
A primrose by the river's brim A yellow rose was to him. And it was nothing more
flower rainbow rose
The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose.
lying rain fall
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless...
fear clouds anxiety
My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they pass, I question things and do not find, one that will answer to my mind, And all the world appears unkind.
life love-is soul
While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.
life light dear
O dearer far than light and life are dear.
time sea heaven
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.
time yoke
Delivered from the galling yoke of time.
time lying boys
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
time past years
The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.