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
poetry enough
Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.
children father men
The child shall become father to the man.
men hair grey
The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.
heaven youth young
To be young was very heaven!
wisdom children knees
Wisdom sits with children round her knees.
sympathy condolences grief
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.
garden water labyrinth
Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.
imagination levers world
The mightiest lever known to the world: imagination.
sick lovers fit
The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts.
earth classic shows
Earth has not anything to show more fair.
happiness beautiful age
A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.
youth madness poet
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
god men names
We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.
happiness issues heaven
But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.