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
i-love-you birthday marriage
Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
glory gentle
Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.
strength sympathy time
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
sad nature dark
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
cells rooms spirituality
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.
sky way wheels
Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.
fathers-day dad father-son
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
noble nobility perpetual
Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.
prison doom
In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is.
accomplishment imperfection vain
Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave.
profound secret cups
Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound.
time moving scene
On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.
heaven earth youth
A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.
poetry outcomes emotion
Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.