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
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.
ocean land sea
Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen.
sadness heaven sorrow
In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.
strong art fate
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.
betrayal blow men
Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.