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
nature heart years
Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.
nature blow moon
Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.
nature book joy
May books and nature be their early joy!
squares splits intellect
But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?
accomplishment vision divine
The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.
life eye blood
Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
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
intuition passionate belief
One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.
divine
Truths that wake To perish never
stars flower men
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.
victory-and-defeat energy principles
For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.
humanity hearing sad-music
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
spring power men
I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.
nature faces common
Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.