Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Written With A Pencil Upon A Stone In The Wall Of The House, On The Island At Grasmere
Rude is this Edifice, and Thou hast seenBuildings, albeit rude, that have maintainedProportions more harmonious, and approachedTo closer fellowship..
© William Wordsworth
Ode Composed On A May Morning
WHILE from the purpling east departsThe star that led the dawn,Blithe Flora from her couch upstarts,For May is on the lawn.A quickening hope, a..
© William Wordsworth
Yarrow Unvisited
. From Stirling castle we had seenThe mazy Forth unravelled;Had trod the banks of Clyde, and Tay,And with the Tweed had travelled;And when we came to..
© William Wordsworth
Inside Of King's College Chapel, Cambridge
. Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense,With ill-matched aims the Architect who planned--Albeit labouring for a scanty bandOf white-robed..
© William Wordsworth
Lines Left Upon A Seat In A Yew-Tree
Nay, Traveller! rest. This lonely Yew-tree standsFar from all human dwelling: what if hereNo sparkling rivulet spread the verdant herb?What if the..
© William Wordsworth
Elegiac Stanzas Suggested By A Picture Of Peele Castle
. I was thy neighbour once, thou rugged Pile!Four summer weeks I dwelt in sight of thee:I saw thee every day; and all the whileThy Form was sleeping..
© William Wordsworth
England V
WHEN I have borne in memory what has tamed Great Nations, how ennobling thoughts depart When men change swords for ledgers, and desertThe..
© William Wordsworth
Inscriptions Written With A Slate Pencil Upon A Stone
THE LARGEST OF A HEAP LYING NEAR A DESERTED QUARRY, UPON ONE OF THE ISLANDS AT RYDALStranger! this hillock of mis-shapen stonesIs not a Ruin spared..
© William Wordsworth
Laodamia
. "With sacrifice before the rising mornVows have I made by fruitless hope inspired;And from the infernal Gods, 'mid shades forlornOf night, my..
© William Wordsworth
Lines Written As A School Exercise At Hawkshead, Anno Aetatis
'And has the Sun his flaming chariot drivenTwo hundred times around the ring of heaven,Since Science first, with all her sacred train,Beneath yon..
© William Wordsworth
The Danish Boy: A Fragment
IBetween two sister moorland rillsThere is a spot that seems to lieSacred to flowerets of the hills,And sacred to the sky.And in this smooth and open..
© William Wordsworth
Dion
. See Plutarch.Serene, and fitted to embrace,Where'er he turned, a swan-like graceOf haughtiness without pretence,And to unfold a still..
© William Wordsworth
Surprised By Joy
Surprised By JoySurprised by joy — impatient as the WindI turned to share the transport--Oh! with whomBut Thee, deep buried in the silent tomb,That..
© William Wordsworth
Ruth
When Ruth was left half desolate,Her Father took another Mate;And Ruth, not seven years old,A slighted child, at her own willWent wandering over dale..
© William Wordsworth
Pet-Lamb, The: A Pastoral Poem
The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink;I heard a voice; it said, "Drink, pretty creature, drink!"And, looking o'er the hedge, before me I..
© William Wordsworth
Ah! Where Is Palafox? Nor Tongue Nor Pen
AH! where is Palafox? Nor tongue no penReports of him, his dwelling or his grave!Does yet the unheard-of vessel ride the wave?Or is she swallowed up..
© William Wordsworth
Yarrow Visited
September, 1814And is this -Yarrow? -This the streamOf which my fancy cherishedSo faithfully, a waking dream,An image that hath perished?O that some..
© William Wordsworth
Mutability
FROM low to high doth dissolution climb, And sink from high to low, along a scale Of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail;A musical but..
© William Wordsworth
The Brothers
'These Tourists, heaven preserve us! needs must liveA profitable life: some glance along,Rapid and gay, as if the earth were air,And they were..
© William Wordsworth
Foresight
That is work of waste and ruin--Do as Charles and I are doing!Strawberry-blossoms, one and all,We must spare them--here are many:Look at it--the..
© William Wordsworth
Three Years She Grew In Sun And Shower,
Three years she grew in sun and shower,Then Nature said, "A lovelier flowerOn earth was never sown;This Child I to myself will take;She shall be..
© William Wordsworth
Goody Blake And Harry Gill
Oh! what's the matter? what's the matter?What is't that ails young Harry Gill?That evermore his teeth they chatter,Chatter, chatter, chatter still!Of..
© William Wordsworth
Guilt And Sorrow
IA traveller on the skirt of Sarum's PlainPursued his vagrant way, with feet half bare;Stooping his gait, but not as if to gainHelp from the staff he..
© William Wordsworth
Lament Of Mary Queen Of Scots
SMILE of the Moon!---for I so nameThat silent greeting from above;A gentle flash of light that cameFrom her whom drooping captives love;Or art thou..
© William Wordsworth
O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art
O Nightingale! thou surely artA creature of a "fiery heart":--These notes of thine--they pierce and pierce;Tumultuous harmony and fierce!Thou sing'st..
© William Wordsworth