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
cannot consciousness images passed precious remained shall shore silent soul stream thoughts
And, when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left, Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory, images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
future hands serve
Enough, if something from our hands have powerTo live, and act, and serve the future hour.
beside poet waves
The waves beside them danced; but they/ Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:/ A poet could not but be gay,/ In such a jocund company.
lonely
Often have I sighed to measureBy myself a lonely pleasure,Sighed to think, I read a bookOnly read, perhaps, by me.
knowledge leads true wiser
Oh, be wiser thou!Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.
bore heard heart music
The music in my heart I bore long after it was heard no more
hope man
A man of hope and forward-looking mind/ Even to the last!
difference language neither nor prose
There neither is, nor can be, any essential" difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.
golf round spent
A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
happiness
A day it was when I could bearTo think, and think, and think again;With so much happiness to spare,I could not feel a pain.
bright creature daily food human simple smiles tears transient
A Creature not too bright or good, For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles
dare ear fits passion strange
Strange fits of passion have I known:/ And I will dare to tell,/ But in the lover's ear alone,/ What once to me befell.
faces silent sipping
Some sipping punch, some sipping tea,/ But, as you by their faces see,/ All silent and all damned!
grow life shall
So was it when my life began;So is it now I am a man;So be it when I shall grow old,Or let me die!