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
brings happiness hour knowledge palpable sorrow
Many are our joysIn youth, but oh! what happiness to liveWhen every hour brings palpable accessOf knowledge, when all knowledge is delight,And sorrow is not there!
charm charming flower music shy smell soft sweetest
Soft is the music that would charm for ever;The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
charm flower music shy smell soft sweetest
Soft is the music that would charm for ever; The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.
phantom
She was a phantom of delightWhen first she gleamed upon my sight.
belief faith passionate persuasion whom
One in whom persuasion and beliefHad ripened into faith, and faith becomeA passionate intuition.
evil impulse moral teach wood
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
looks rough sings smooth solitary trips whistles
O'er rough and smooth she trips along,/ And never looks behind;/ And sings a solitary song/ That whistles in the wind.
dearest heart hundredth lore seldom teach thee
O dearest, dearest boy! my heartFor better lore would seldom yearn,Could I but teach the hundredth partOf what from thee I learn.
among arabian bands breaking chant farthest heard notes seas shady silence thrilling travelers voice weary welcome
No Nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands Of travelers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebri
creature surely thou
O Nightingale, thou surely art/ A creature of a 'fiery heart'.
almost life love
My days, my friend, are almost gone,My life has been approved,And many love me; but by noneAm I enough beloved.
charities duties feet primal scattered shine
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars;The charities that soothe, and heal, and blessAre scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.
apt autumn life morning solemn summer tale taught within
There's not a nook within this solemn pass/ But were an apt confessional for one/ Taught by his summer spent, his autumn gone,/ That life is but a tale of morning grass/ Withered at eve.
hath known lives
There's not a manThat lives who hath not known his god-like hours.