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
moving knowing waiting
Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
And I am happy when I sing.
light erring guides
A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.
heart writing breathing
Write to me frequently & the longest letters possible; never mind whether you have facts or no to communicate; fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
hours milton should
Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour.
men blood inmates
If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus famliarised to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to the aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.
blessing air march
It is the 1st mild day of March. Each minute sweeter than before... there is a blessing in the air.
art eye faces
A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.
bird settling
Free as a bird to settle where I will.
faith greatness transcendence
Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
happiness real warrior
Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? It is the generous spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavors are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright: Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; And in himself posses his own desire
wisdom greatness men
Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none
soul faces tongue
One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.
dwelling light sun
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.