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
art darling invisible thou
Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring!Even yet thou art to meNo bird, but an invisible thing,A voice, a mystery. . . .
child earth grew lady nature shall sun three
Three years she grew in sun and shower,/ Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower/ On earth was never sown;/ This child I to myself will take;/ She shall be mine, and I will make/ A Lady of my own.
dim nights passed three words
Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
marble mind newton prism seas silent statue strange
Where the statue stood/ Of Newton with his prism and silent face,/ The marble index of a mind for ever/ Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
land lies ship
Where lies the land to which yon ship must go?
destiny evermore heart hope whether
Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being's heart and home,Is with infinitude, and only there;With hope it is, hope that can never die,Effort and expectation, and desire,And something evermore about to be.
almighty bow heads thy
We bow our heads before Thee, and we laudAnd magnify thy name, Almighty God!
claimed gifts shall stray whoever
In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
joy
I hear, I hear, with joy I hear!
above choice measured ordinary word
Choice word and measured phrase, above the reachOf ordinary men; a stately speech.
bitterness
But hushed be every thought that springsFrom out the bitterness of things.
behold gently singing single solitary
Behold her, single in the field,Yon solitary Highland lass!Reaping and singing by herself;Stop here, or gently pass!
good power simple
Because the good old ruleSufficeth them, the simple plan,That they should take, who have the power,And they should keep who can.
characters eternity great symbols types
Characters of the great Apocalypse,/ The types and symbols of Eternity,/ Of first, and last, and midst, and without end.