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
air faith
And 'tis my faith, that every flowerEnjoys the air it breathes.
belief faith passionate persuasion whom
One in whom persuasion and beliefHad ripened into faith, and faith becomeA passionate intuition.
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
faith sweet flower
Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.
remembrance faithful mind
Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?
faith greatness transcendence
Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
faith wisdom spiritual
Faith is a passionate intuition.
faith evil reconcile
Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.
common harvest quiet random round sleeps truths
In common things that round us lieSome random truths he can impart, --The harvest of a quiet eyeThat broods and sleeps on his own heart.
birth deeper impulses
Impulses of deeper birth have come to him in solitude.
form function shall
Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide;The Form remains, the Function never dies.
noisy strongest whom
Strongest mindsAre often those of whom the noisy worldHears least.
heaven knows
Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, -- Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, -- the place where in the end We find our happiness, or not at all!
became good honest ten
After ten months' melancholy,/ Became a good and honest man.