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
love nature betrayal
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
feelings doe tedious
Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.
love winter sound
Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.
power getting-high waste
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
lying flower garden
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
inspirational baby sleep
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
sad nature dark
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
flower sleep heart
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune.
heart garden pleasure
Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.
hope and-love admiration
We live by admiration, hope and love.
men grieving shade
Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.
life future past
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
friendship teacher ocean
As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.
cells rooms spirituality
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.