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
heaven alive dawn
Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.
forgiveness body haunting
From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
forgiveness forgiving god-forgives
The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!
murder form intellect
Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect
vanity earth evening
Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.
influence
Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.
cheerful delight spirit
A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
rain army blue
Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping — anon — anon! There's joy in the mountains: There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone.
sad spring maids
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.
lasts
Small service is true service, while it lasts.
tree brotherhood
A brotherhood of venerable trees.
white snow saws
By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!
life-and-love eye romantic-love
And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.
romance sitting sole
Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.