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
minds
Minds that have nothing to conferFind little to perceive.
marble mind newton prism seas silent statue strange
Where the statue stood/ Of Newton with his prism and silent face,/ The marble index of a mind for ever/ Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
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. . . I would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening to notes that are The ghostly language of the ancient earth, Or make their dim abode in distant winds. Thence did I drink the visionary power; And deem not profitless those fleeting moods Of shadowy exultation: not for this, That they are kindred to our purer mind And intellectual life; but that the soul, Remembering how she felt, but what she felt Remembering not, retains an obscure sense Of possible sublimity. . . .
gentle mind silent stores tale
O Reader! had you in your mindSuch stores as silent thought can bring,O gentle Reader! you would findA tale in everything.
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.
wise mind divine
Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness
nature mind
To the solid ground Of Nature trusts the mind which builds for aye.
sea forever mind
Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.
years mind philosophic
In years that bring the philosophic mind.
mind littles perceive
Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.
mind silent tales
O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.
beauty perception mind
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
sea forever mind
A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
beautiful men mind
The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.