William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth: More pellucid streams,<br>An...

William Wordsworth: More pellucid streams,<br>An...

More pellucid streams,
An ampler ether, a diviner air,
And fields invested with purpureal...

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William Wordsworth: The mightiest lever...

William Wordsworth: The mightiest lever...

The mightiest lever known to the moral world, Imagination.

Source: In Webster's...

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William Wordsworth: Poetry is the...

William Wordsworth: Poetry is the...

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in...

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William Wordsworth: Hearing often-times&lt;br&gt;The still,...

William Wordsworth: Hearing often-times<br>The still,...

Hearing often-times
The still, sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten...

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William Wordsworth: The holy time...

William Wordsworth: The holy time...

The holy time is quiet as a nun
Breathless with adoration.


Source: Miscellaneous...

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William Wordsworth: For I have...

William Wordsworth: For I have...

For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes
The...

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William Wordsworth: The gods approve&lt;br&gt;The...

William Wordsworth: The gods approve<br>The...

The gods approve
The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.


Source: Laodamia,...

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William Wordsworth: The first cuckoo&#039;s...

William Wordsworth: The first cuckoo's...

The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets, I. 14, `To...

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William Wordsworth: Neither evil tongues,...

William Wordsworth: Neither evil tongues,...

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the...

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William Wordsworth: Scorn not the...

William Wordsworth: Scorn not the...

Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned,
Mindless of its just honours; with this key
Shakespeare unlocked...

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William Wordsworth: All the mighty...

William Wordsworth: All the mighty...

All the mighty world
Of eye, and ear,- both what they half create,
And what...

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William Wordsworth: He spake of...

William Wordsworth: He spake of...

He spake of love, such love as spirits feel
In worlds whose course is equable and pure;
No fears to beat away -...

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William Wordsworth: Where lies the...

William Wordsworth: Where lies the...

Where lies the land to which yon ship must go?

Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets, I....

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William Wordsworth: O&#039;er rough and...

William Wordsworth: O'er rough and...

O'er rough and smooth she trips along,
And never looks behind;
And sings a solitary song
That whistles in the...

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William Wordsworth: Why art thou...

William Wordsworth: Why art thou...

Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant
Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air
Of absence withers what was...

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William Wordsworth: More like a...

William Wordsworth: More like a...

More like a man
Flying from something that he dreads than one
Who sought the thing he...

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William Wordsworth: I have felt&lt;br&gt;A...

William Wordsworth: I have felt<br>A...

I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far...

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William Wordsworth: Great God! I&#039;d...

William Wordsworth: Great God! I'd...

Great God! I'd rather be
A pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have...

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William Wordsworth: There neither is,...

William Wordsworth: There neither is,...

There neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical...

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William Wordsworth: Another year! -...

William Wordsworth: Another year! -...

Another year! - another deadly blow!
Another mighty empire overthrown!
And we are left, or shall be left,...

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