William Wordsworth

England
7 Apr 1770 // 23 Apr 1850
Poet

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On Opportunity:

Turning, for them who pass, the common dust
Of servile opportunity to gold.

Desultory Stanza

On Nature:

There 's something in a flying horse,
There 's something in a huge balloon.

Peter Bell

On Poetry:

The vision and the faculty divine;
Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.

The Excursion

Oh for a single hour of that Dundee
Who on that day the word of onset gave!

Sonnet, in the Pass of Killicranky

On Sadness:

But hushed be every thought that springs
From out the bitterness of things.

Elegiac Stanzas

On Beauty:

Elysian beauty, melancholy grace,
Brought from a pensive though a happy place.

Laodamia

On Woman:

The gentle Lady married to the Moor,
And heavenly Una with her milk-white lamb.

Personal Talk

On Immortality:

At length the man perceives it die away,
And fade into the light of common day.

Intimations of Immortality

On Action:

Action is transitory,—a step, a blow;
The motion of a muscle, this way or that.

The Borderers

On Danger:

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay,
Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

Character of the Happy Warrior
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