William Wordsworth
A major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature.
Quotes by William Wordsworth
I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England did I know till then What she meant unto me.
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers.
On his own bright back to play; He sees her in his face, That City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare.
Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.
As a cloud that travels with the wind, yet never leaves the sky.
The human heart by which we live, The human mind by which we think.
In spite of all, I do not grieve For the lost time; for I am wise, And have outlived the bitterness of youth.
I am old now, and my days are few, but I have lived a life of poetry.
The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face.
A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light.