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
dearest heart hundredth lore seldom teach thee
O dearest, dearest boy! my heartFor better lore would seldom yearn,Could I but teach the hundredth partOf what from thee I learn.
among arabian bands breaking chant farthest heard notes seas shady silence thrilling travelers voice weary welcome
No Nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands Of travelers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebri
creature surely thou
O Nightingale, thou surely art/ A creature of a 'fiery heart'.
almost life love
My days, my friend, are almost gone,My life has been approved,And many love me; but by noneAm I enough beloved.
exposed knowledge suffering tempted
More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure,/ As tempted more; more able to endure,/ As more exposed to suffering and distress.
dreads flying sought
More like a man/ Flying from something that he dreads than one/ Who sought the thing he loved.
heart leaps rainbow
My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky.
behold heart leaps rainbow
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky.
contented fret hermits narrow
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room;And hermits are contented with their cells.
rock sand sun
Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf/ Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself.
emulate pride rocket
What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.
brought far immortal sight souls though
Though inland far we be,Our souls have sight of that immortal seaWhich brought us hither.
awful call guidance thy weakness
To humbler functions, awful Power!I call thee: I myself commendUnto thy guidance from this hour;Oh, let my weakness have an end!
fair human nature soul works
To her fair works did Nature linkThe human soul that through me ran. . . .