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
dare ear fits passion strange
Strange fits of passion have I known:/ And I will dare to tell,/ But in the lover's ear alone,/ What once to me befell.
faces silent sipping
Some sipping punch, some sipping tea,/ But, as you by their faces see,/ All silent and all damned!
grow life shall
So was it when my life began;So is it now I am a man;So be it when I shall grow old,Or let me die!
competent difficult soul tasks
And the most difficult of tasks to keepHeights which the soul is competent to gain.
deadly empire mighty shall
Another year! - another deadly blow!/ Another mighty empire overthrown!/ And we are left, or shall be left, alone.
blows deep flower hath heart human joys lie meanest palms race thanks thoughts
Another race hath been, and other palms are won./ Thanks to the human heart by which we live,/ Thanks to its tenderness, its joys and fears,/ To me the meanest flower that blows can give/ Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
bald huge seen stone top
As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie/ Couched on the bald top of an eminence.
earth whom youth
A youth to whom was givenSo much of earth, so much of heaven.And such impetuous blood.
again gave timely utterance
A timely utterance gave that thought relief,/ And I again am strong.
earthly hears human motion neither nor round seemed slumber spirit touch
A slumber did my spirit seal;/ I had no human fears:/ She seemed a thing that could not feel/ The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force;/ She neither hears nor sees;/ Rolled round in earth's diurnal course. . .
alone dead earth great living noble society
One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead
action betrayed men motion ourselves transitory wonder
Action is transitory a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed
action betrayed men motion ourselves transitory wonder
Action is transitory a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed
books-and-reading both flesh happiness pastime pure strong
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,Are a substantial world, both pure and good:Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,Our pastime and our happiness will grow.