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
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No human ear shall ever hear me speak;No human dwelling ever give me food,Or sleep, or rest: but, over waste and wild,In search of nothing, that this earth can give,But expiation, will I wander on --A Man by pain and thought compelled to live,Yet loathing life -- till anger is appeasedIn Heaven, and Mercy gives me leave to die.
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility
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Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
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Never to blend our pleasure or our prideWith sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
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Many are our joysIn youth, but oh! what happiness to liveWhen every hour brings palpable accessOf knowledge, when all knowledge is delight,And sorrow is not there!
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Soft is the music that would charm for ever;The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
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Soft is the music that would charm for ever; The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
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She was a phantom of delightWhen first she gleamed upon my sight.
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She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;And humble cares, and delicate fears;A heart, the fountain of sweet tears;And love and thought and joy.
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Minds that have nothing to conferFind little to perceive.
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Men are we, and must grieve when even the shadeOf that which once was great, is passed away.
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One in whom persuasion and beliefHad ripened into faith, and faith becomeA passionate intuition.
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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
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O'er rough and smooth she trips along,/ And never looks behind;/ And sings a solitary song/ That whistles in the wind.