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
eternal motion sound thunder
And doth, with his eternal motion makeA sound like thunder - everlasting
heart man
And much it grieved my heart to thinkWhat Man has made of Man.
casting divine formal grandeur
And so the grandeur of the Forest-treeComes not by casting in a formal mould,But from its own divine vitality.
face glad joy wear
And often, glad no more,We wear a face of joy becauseWe have been glad of yore.
eye pulse
And now I see with eye sereneThe very pulse of the machine.
love sun
All things that love the sun are out of doors.
birth earthquake satisfied second
All things have second birth;The earthquake is not satisfied at once.
child english-poet father
The Child is the father of the Man.
gods
The gods approveThe depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.
burn die dry dust good hearts summer whose
The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket
god love
The love of God is passionate. He pursues each of us even when we know it not.
acts best kindness love parts
The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
became good honest ten
After ten months' melancholy,/ Became a good and honest man.
dim words
The intellectual power, through words and things,Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!