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
wise learning speech
Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.
law heat conflict
And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.
voice sea two
Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.
nature book joy
May books and nature be their early joy!
men feelings degrees
A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.
years silence moments
Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.
eye heritage philosopher
Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.
nature mountain earth
Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.
nature
For nature then to me was all in all.
lonely nature rivers
I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.
eye men echoes
Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!
prayer blow sight
Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn
blood earth cry
Earth helped him with the cry of blood.
happiness luxury disrespect
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.