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
circles glittering idly melted small until
Small circles glittering idly in the moon,/ Until they melted all into one track/ Of sparkling light.
build
So build we up the being that we are.
acts best english-poet good kindness life portion
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
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The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
imagination known lever moral
The mightiest lever known to the moral world, imagination.
fever hung
The fretful stirUnprofitable, and the fever of the worldHave hung upon the beatings of my heart.
common earth growth humblest mirth mother
The common growth of Mother EarthSuffices me, -- her tears, her mirth,Her humblest mirth and tears.
continued honorable men objects please
All men feel something of an honorable bigotry for the objects which have long continued to please them.
holy quiet time
The holy time is quiet as a nunBreathless with adoration.
cattle feeding forty heads
The cattle are grazing,Their heads never raising;There are forty feeding like one!
food homeless homes near tables thousand
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
grim living measured motion purpose
The grim shape/ Towered up between me and the stars, and still,/ For so it seemed, with purpose of its own/ And measured motion like a living thing,/ Strode after me.
both half mighty
All the mighty world of eye, and ear, both what they half create, and what they percieve.