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William Wordsworth
(1770-1850 / Cumberland / England)
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''No master spirit, no determined road;
But equally a want of books and men!''
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Great Men Have Been among Us (l. 13-14). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [William Wordsworth]. John O. Hayden,...
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''And mighty poets in their misery dead.''
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Resolution and Independence (l. 116). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [William Wordsworth]. John O. Hayden, ed...
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''Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd
And tongues that utter'd wisdom—better none:''
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Great Men Have Been among Us (l. 1-2). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [William Wordsworth]. John O. Hayden, e...
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''The good old rule
Sufficeth them, the simple plan,
That they should take, who have the power,
And they should keep who can.''
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Rob Roy's Grave, st. 9, Poems in Two Volumes (1807).
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The darkest pit
Of the profoundest hell, chaos, night,
Nor aught of blinder vacancy scooped out
By help of dreams can breed such fear and awe
As fall upon us often when we look
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Home at Grasmere (written 1800), published as The Recluse (1888).
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He told of the Magnolia, spread
High as a cloud, high over head!
The Cypress and her spire;
MOf flowers that with one scarlet gleam
Cover a hundred leagues, and seem
To set th...
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Ruth; or, The Influences of Nature (l. 61-66). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [William Wordsworth]. John O. H...
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''Is there not
An art, a music, and a stream of words
That shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?''
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Home at Grasmere, l. 620-2 (written 1800, published as The Recluse 1888).
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Among the Indians he had fought;
And with him many tales he brought
Of pleasure and of fear;
Such tales as told to any Maid
By such a Youth, in the green shade,
Were perilous ...
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Ruth; or, The Influences of Nature (l. 43-48). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [William Wordsworth]. John O. H...
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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 ...
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Home at Grasmere, l. 287-92 (written 1800, published as The Recluse 1888).
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''Milton, in his hand
The thing became a trumpet;''
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Scorn not the sonnet; critic, you have frowned. . .
The Poems; Vol. 2 [William Wordsworth]. John O. ...
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