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 faces common
Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
freedom tongue moral
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.
love wise knowledge
Oh, be wise, Thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.
life and-love dignity
We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend.
life thinking idolatry
Plain living and high thinking are no more.
life queens winter
He loves not well whose love is bold! I would not have thee come too nigh. The sun's gold would not seem pure gold Unless the sun were in the sky: To take him thence and chain him near Would make his beauty disappear. William Winter, Love's Queen. The unconquerable pang of despised love.
love life stars
For mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favourite be feeble woman's breast.
divine
Truths that wake To perish never
stars flower men
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.
victory-and-defeat energy principles
For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.
humanity hearing sad-music
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
heart blue sky
The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky!
eye heart tears
My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.
rocks brotherhood
Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial.