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
nearer oft soar stoop wisdom
Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar
company doomed glorious miserable necessity
Who, doomed to go in company with Pain,And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train!Turns his necessity to glorious gain.
glory visionary
Whither is fled the visionary gleam?Where is it now, the glory and the dream?
fill future present within
We have within ourselvesEnough to fill the present day with joy,And overspread the future years with hope.
cover gave loose moral natural stones
To every natural form, rock, fruits, or flower,Even the loose stones that cover the highway,I gave a moral life.
active form spoke
To every Form of being is assigned,"Thus calmly spoke the venerable Sage,"An active Principle.
eyes stars twilight
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair. . . .
eyes stars twilight
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair. . . .
heaven kindred points soar type wise
Type of the wise who soar but never roam;True to the kindred points of heaven and home.
soul thy
Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart.
generosity heaven high less lore rejects thou
Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.
earth four morning
Four years and thirty, told this very week,Have I been now a sojourner on earth,And yet the morning gladness is not goneWhich then was in my mind.
ankles weak
For still, the more he works, the moreDo his weak ankles swell.
difference grave
but(for) she is in her grave - and, oh, the difference to me