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
draws feels life lightly simple
A simple child,That lightly draws its breath,And feels its life in every limb,What should it know of death?
bow custom growing life light moves potent substitute universe vulgar weight
The tendency, too potent in itself,Of use and custom to bow down the soulUnder a growing weight of vulgar sense,And substitute a universe of deathFor that which moves with light and life informed,Actual, divine, and true.
art check daughter light name stern thou voice
Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!/ O Duty! if that name thou love/ Who art a light to guide, a rod/ To check the erring and reprove.
uplifting love-is light
Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security.
angel light perfect
A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light
life light dear
O dearer far than light and life are dear.
light imagination rivals
But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
men light common
At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
dream light sight
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream.
blessed light world
That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.
light erring guides
A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.
dwelling light sun
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.
light inward path
His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.
stars sight light
Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!