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
beloved childish con records shall
Beloved Vale, I said, When I shall con those many records of my childish years
blessings eternal gave
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise,Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!
mighty voices
Two Voices are there; one is of the sea,One of the mountains; each a mighty Voice.
awful man pure thy
But man is thy most awful instrumentIn working out a pure intent.
bliss dawn
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,But to be young was very heaven!
fixed man open solitary wind
As if the man had fixed his face,In many a solitary place,Against the wind and open sky!
grateful inward luxury
There is a luxury in self-dispraise;And inward self-disparagement affordsTo meditative spleen a grateful feast.
grow quit surely
Up! up! my friend, and quit your books;Or surely you'll grow double. . . .
clear toil trouble
Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks;Why all this toil and trouble?
bolt fatal fears harm voices
What are fears but voices airy?Whispering harm where harm is not.And deluding the unwaryTill the fatal bolt is shot!
bolt fatal fear fears harm till voices whispering
What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot!
became fell path round
When a damp/ Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand/ The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew/ Soul-animating strains - alas, too few!
dark discordant elements invisible move reconciles society
There is a dark invisible workmanship - that reconciles discordant elements - and makes them move in one society
break comfort strength
There is a comfort in the strength of love;'T will make a thing endurable, which elseWould overset the brain, or break the heart. . . .