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
alone dead earth great living noble society
One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead
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
books-and-reading both flesh happiness pastime pure strong
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,Are a substantial world, both pure and good:Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
dear heart houses lying mighty seem
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!
bald huge seen stone top
As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie/ Couched on the bald top of an eminence.
earth whom youth
A youth to whom was givenSo much of earth, so much of heaven.And such impetuous blood.
again gave timely utterance
A timely utterance gave that thought relief,/ And I again am strong.
earthly hears human motion neither nor round seemed slumber spirit touch
A slumber did my spirit seal;/ I had no human fears:/ She seemed a thing that could not feel/ The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force;/ She neither hears nor sees;/ Rolled round in earth's diurnal course. . .
above himself poor unless
And that unless above himself he canErect himself, how poor a thing is man.
yellow
A primrose by a river's brimA yellow primrose was to him,And it was nothing more.
conclude good poem poet produced
A poet who has not produced a good poem before he is twenty-five, we may conclude cannot, and never will do so.
competent difficult soul tasks
And the most difficult of tasks to keepHeights which the soul is competent to gain.
deadly empire mighty shall
Another year! - another deadly blow!/ Another mighty empire overthrown!/ And we are left, or shall be left, alone.