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
calmness conflict heat keeps sees
And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the lawIn calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.
cannot consciousness images passed precious remained shall silent soul
And, when the streamWhich overflowed the soul was passed away,A consciousness remained that it had left,Deposited upon the silent shoreOf memory, images and precious thoughtsThat shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
cannot consciousness images passed precious remained shall shore silent soul stream thoughts
And, when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left, Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory, images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
beloved childish con records shall
Beloved Vale, I said, When I shall con those many records of my childish years
continuous stars twinkle
Continuous as the stars that shine/ And twinkle on the milky way.
contented fret hermits narrow
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room;And hermits are contented with their cells.
conclude good poem poet produced
A poet who has not produced a good poem before he is twenty-five, we may conclude cannot, and never will do so.
continued honorable men objects please
All men feel something of an honorable bigotry for the objects which have long continued to please them.
sympathy grief condolences
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
son cities confusion
Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity.
sympathy condolences grief
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.
confidence men yesterday
A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.
law heat conflict
And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.
bosom sea sleeping winds
The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;The winds that will be howling at all hours,And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;For this, for everything, we are out of tune.