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 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
land lies ship
Where lies the land to which yon ship must go?
brother sunshine land
How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!
dream sea land
The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.
sea land ties
Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.
ocean land sea
Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen.
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.
cottage evening named
The cottage which was named the Evening Star/ Is gone.
cloud floats golden high lonely saw wandered
I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils.