Love - By William Wordsworth
All Thoughts, all Passions, all Delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal Frame,
All are but Ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame.
Oft in my waking dreams do I
Live o'er again that happy hour,
When midway on the Mount I lay
Beside the Ruin'd Tower.
The Moonshine stealing o'er the scene
Had blended with the Lights of Eve;
And she was there, my Hope, my Joy,
My own dear Genevieve!
She lean'd against the Armed Man,
The Statue of the Armed Knight:
She stood and listen'd to my Harp
Amid ...
Williams Wordsworth was a British poet. He was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the Lake District and spent most of his lifetime in the Lake District of Northern England only. He started the English Romantic movement with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with their collection "LYRICAL BALLADS" in 1798. His work as poet mainly based on topics involving the life of children, common people, poor mass, and nature. He used very simple wordings to express his feelings through poems.
The beautiful landscape of ...
A Conversation
We talked with open heart, and tongue
Affectionate and true,
A pair of friends, though I was young,
And Matthew seventy-two.
We lay beneath a spreading oak,
Beside a mossy seat;
And from the turf a fountain broke
And gurgled at our feet.
`Now, Matthew!' said I, `let us match
This water's pleasant tune
With some old border-song, or catch
That suits a summer's noon;
`Or of the church-clock and the chimes
Sing here beneath the shade
That half-mad thing of witty rhymes
Which you last April made!'
In silence Matthew lay, and eyed
The spring ...