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
above choice measured ordinary word
Choice word and measured phrase, above the reachOf ordinary men; a stately speech.
child english-poet father
The Child is the father of the Man.
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.
above himself poor unless
And that unless above himself he canErect himself, how poor a thing is man.
break comfort strength
There is a comfort in the strength of love;'T will make a thing endurable, which elseWould overset the brain, or break the heart. . . .
break comfort strength
There is a comfort in the strength of love;'T will make a thing endurable, which elseWould overset the brain, or break the heart. . . .
writing artist taste
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
music gait train
When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.
music gait train
When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.
simple simplicity should
Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.
perspective all-things seems
For all things are less dreadful than they seem.
perspective all-things seems
For all things are less dreadful than they seem.
rose
The budding rose above the rose full blown.
dream book world
Dreams, books, are each a world.