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
divinity may divine
Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.
song divinity orbs
That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton.
sadness weight wonder
The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.
thinking
Stop thinking for once in your life!
music sparks instinct
Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.
music humanity hearing
But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.
death eye men
The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.
influence
Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.
god blue hemisphere
...one interior life in which all beings live with God, themselves are God, existing in the mighty whole, indistinguishable as the cloudless east is from the cloudless west, when all the hemisphere is one cerulean blue.
hope men suffering
Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
joy faces glad
And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore.
memories meek heavenly
Meek Walton's heavenly memory.
fashion men hands
Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself - no helper hast thou here - Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can divide with thee this work, No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else 'tis not thine at all.
grateful luxury self
There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.