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
cannot consciousness images passed precious remained shall shore silent soul stream thoughts
And, when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left, Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory, images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
future hands serve
Enough, if something from our hands have powerTo live, and act, and serve the future hour.
common gold opportunity
Turning, for them who pass, the common dustOf servile opportunity to gold.
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!
brought far immortal sight souls though
Though inland far we be,Our souls have sight of that immortal seaWhich brought us hither.
awful call guidance thy weakness
To humbler functions, awful Power!I call thee: I myself commendUnto thy guidance from this hour;Oh, let my weakness have an end!
fair human nature soul works
To her fair works did Nature linkThe human soul that through me ran. . . .
gentle spirit
With gentle handTouch -- for there is a spirit in the woods.
bolt fatal fears harm voices
What are fears but voices airy?Whispering harm where harm is not.And deluding the unwaryTill the fatal bolt is shot!
bolt fatal fear fears harm till voices whispering
What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot!
fixed man open solitary wind
As if the man had fixed his face,In many a solitary place,Against the wind and open sky!