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
light inward path
His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.
heaven earth youth
A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.
nature blow moon
Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.
nature heart years
Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.
glory infirmity props
Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.
confidence men yesterday
A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.
lying home clouds
But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.
children childhood today
The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow
death memories headstone
Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.
years victory age
The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height.
stars sight light
Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!
firsts cuckoos cry
The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.
eagles lord
The Eagle, he was lord above
heart inward dignity
True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.