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
gentle spirit
With gentle handTouch -- for there is a spirit in the woods.
bolt fatal fears harm voices
What are fears but voices airy?Whispering harm where harm is not.And deluding the unwaryTill the fatal bolt is shot!
bolt fatal fear fears harm till voices whispering
What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot!
distinct existence nourished spots
There are in our existence spots of timeThat with distinct pre-eminence retainA renovating virtue, whence . . . our mindsAre nourished and invisibly repaired.
barrier blessed fresh joyous mother thee thoughts
Without Thee what is all the morning's wealth?Come, blessed barrier between day and day,Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!
die faith free held hold milton morals shakespeare speak tongue
We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold Which Milton held
grateful inward luxury
There is a luxury in self-dispraise;And inward self-disparagement affordsTo meditative spleen a grateful feast.
grow quit surely
Up! up! my friend, and quit your books;Or surely you'll grow double. . . .
clear toil trouble
Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks;Why all this toil and trouble?
became fell path round
When a damp/ Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand/ The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew/ Soul-animating strains - alas, too few!
dark discordant elements invisible move reconciles society
There is a dark invisible workmanship - that reconciles discordant elements - and makes them move in one society
break comfort strength
There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'T will make a thing endurable, which else Would overset the brain, or break the heart. . . .
fear hearts human judge man nature prevail reason righteous solemn wise words
Why do not words and kiss, and solemn pledge, And nature that is kind in woman's breast, And reason that in man is wise and good, And fear of Him who is a righteous Judge - Why do not these prevail for human life, To keep two hearts together, that be
absence air art love plant thou thy weak withers
Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant / Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air / Of absence withers what was once so fair?