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
flower butterfly sleep
I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How motionless! - not frozen seas More motionless! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you forth again!
philosophy stubborn weight
The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.
islands heaven world
Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all
wise wisest
And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.
angel light perfect
A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light
light inward path
His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.
grateful luxury self
There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
joy faces glad
And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore.
hope men suffering
Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
drank felt secret seemed serious spirit
Yet sometimes, when the secret cupOf still and serious thought went round,It seemed as if he drank it up --He felt with spirit so profound.
gentle spirit
With gentle handTouch -- for there is a spirit in the woods.
awful call guidance thy weakness
To humbler functions, awful Power!I call thee: I myself commendUnto thy guidance from this hour;Oh, let my weakness have an end!
brought far immortal sight souls though
Though inland far we be,Our souls have sight of that immortal seaWhich brought us hither.
land lies ship
Where lies the land to which yon ship must go?