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
continuous stars twinkle
Continuous as the stars that shine/ And twinkle on the milky way.
embodied motions mystery visionary
Visionary power/ Attends the motions of the viewless winds,/ Embodied in the mystery of words.
apt autumn life morning solemn summer tale taught within
There's not a nook within this solemn pass/ But were an apt confessional for one/ Taught by his summer spent, his autumn gone,/ That life is but a tale of morning grass/ Withered at eve.
hath known lives
There's not a manThat lives who hath not known his god-like hours.
beside poet waves
The waves beside them danced; but they/ Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:/ A poet could not but be gay,/ In such a jocund company.
beauty bright city fields glittering lie open silent temples unto wear
This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
forever itself mighty
Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum/ Of things forever speaking./ That nothing of itself will come,/ But we must still be seeking?
moments noisy thy
O Silence! are Man's noisy yearsNo more than moments of thy life?
lonely
Often have I sighed to measureBy myself a lonely pleasure,Sighed to think, I read a bookOnly read, perhaps, by me.
knowledge leads true wiser
Oh, be wiser thou!Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.
bore heard heart music
The music in my heart I bore long after it was heard no more
golf round spent
A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
happiness
A day it was when I could bearTo think, and think, and think again;With so much happiness to spare,I could not feel a pain.
bright creature daily food human simple smiles tears transient
A Creature not too bright or good, For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles