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
eye invisible creation
There is creation in the eye.
stars fall voice
The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink I heard a voice it said Drink, pretty creature, drink'
looks way ghost
I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. 'Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and the dead.
tree decay form
This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.
daughter art light
Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.
summer song art
The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.
beauty beautiful art
If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.
nature years feels
She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.
lonely sleep sky
The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
heart men firsts
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.
glory strife hard
Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
intuition passionate belief
One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.
lakes water feelings
A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.
love nature travel
I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.