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
english-poet nearer stoop wisdom
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
nearer oft soar stoop wisdom
Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar
wisdom married immortal
Wisdom married to immortal verse.
wisdom greatness men
Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none
wisdom book poetry
Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.
wisdom children knees
Wisdom sits with children round her knees.
faith wisdom spiritual
Faith is a passionate intuition.
positive weed wisdom
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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.