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
grieve men passed
Men are we, and must grieve when even the shadeOf that which once was great, is passed away.
action betrayed men motion ourselves transitory wonder
Action is transitory a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed
action betrayed men motion ourselves transitory wonder
Action is transitory a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed
knowing men
How men livedEven next-door neighbors, as we say, yet stillStrangers, not knowing each the other's name.
continued honorable men objects please
All men feel something of an honorable bigotry for the objects which have long continued to please them.
dream men mind
Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
men joy singers
A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.
men cloaks old-man
Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.
men choices phrases
Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men.
men self feels
Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.
heart men thinking
And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.
gratitude money men
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.
life ocean men
I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man...
heart men sky
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man;