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
charm charming flower music shy smell soft sweetest
Soft is the music that would charm for ever;The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
charm flower music shy smell soft sweetest
Soft is the music that would charm for ever; The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
phantom
She was a phantom of delightWhen first she gleamed upon my sight.
delicate eyes fountain gave humble love sweet
She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;And humble cares, and delicate fears;A heart, the fountain of sweet tears;And love and thought and joy.
minds
Minds that have nothing to conferFind little to perceive.
grieve men passed
Men are we, and must grieve when even the shadeOf that which once was great, is passed away.
charities duties feet primal scattered shine
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars;The charities that soothe, and heal, and blessAre scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.
contented fret hermits narrow
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room;And hermits are contented with their cells.
blended bring early fair grove heard heart human link mood nature notes pleasant sad soul spring sweet thoughts thousand works written
Written in Early Spring I heard a thousand blended notes While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.
difference language neither nor prose
There neither is, nor can be, any essential" difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.
among beyond bore england lands love nor thee till traveled unknown
I traveled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea: Nor England! Did I know till then What love I bore to thee
hope man
A man of hope and forward-looking mind/ Even to the last!
age-and-aging beautiful foolish happy nature
With Nature never do they wageA foolish strife; they seeA happy youth, and their old ageIs beautiful and free.
greater
We feel that we are greater than we know.