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
blood earth cry
Earth helped him with the cry of blood.
lonely nature rivers
I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.
nature
For nature then to me was all in all.
nature mountain earth
Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.
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.