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
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.
difference grave
but(for) she is in her grave - and, oh, the difference to me
anger compelled dwelling ear earth food gives hear human leave life loathing mercy pain search shall till wander waste
No human ear shall ever hear me speak;No human dwelling ever give me food,Or sleep, or rest: but, over waste and wild,In search of nothing, that this earth can give,But expiation, will I wander on --A Man by pain and thought compelled to live,Yet loathing life -- till anger is appeasedIn Heaven, and Mercy gives me leave to die.
emotion emotions origin overflow poetry powerful takes
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility
breath expression finer poetry spirit
Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
blend meanest pleasure sorrow
Never to blend our pleasure or our prideWith sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
rock sand sun
Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf/ Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself.
brings happiness hour knowledge palpable sorrow
Many are our joysIn youth, but oh! what happiness to liveWhen every hour brings palpable accessOf knowledge, when all knowledge is delight,And sorrow is not there!