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
heart garden pleasure
Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.
nature teach
What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.
summer spring looks
Departing summer hath assumed An aspect tenderly illumed, The gentlest look of spring; That calls from yonder leafy shade Unfaded, yet prepared to fade, A timely carolling.
love winter sound
Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.
love nature travel
I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.
friendship book looks
Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?
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.
wise home heaven
Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.
glory strife hard
Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
brother sunshine land
How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!
sea forever mind
Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.
noble nobility perpetual
Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.
music gait train
When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.