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").
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
She Was A Phantom Of Delight
She was a phantom of delightWhen first she gleamed upon my sight;A lovely Apparition, sentTo be a moment's ornament;Her eyes as stars of Twilight..
© William Wordsworth
Ellen Irwin
Fair Ellen Irwin, when she sateUpon the braes of Kirtle,Was lovely as a Grecian maidAdorned with wreaths of myrtle;Young Adam Bruce beside her..
© William Wordsworth
Resolution And Independence
IThere was a roaring in the wind all night;The rain came heavily and fell in floods;But now the sun is rising calm and bright;The birds are singing..
© William Wordsworth
Elegiac Stanzas
Lulled by the sound of pastoral bells,Rude Nature's Pilgrims did we go,From the dread summit of the QueenOf mountains, through a deep ravine,Where..
© William Wordsworth
Extempore Effusion Upon The Death Of James Hogg
. When first, descending from the moorlands,I saw the Stream of Yarrow glideAlong a bare and open valley,The Ettrick Shepherd was my guide.When last..
© William Wordsworth
Scorn Not The Sonnet
Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned,Mindless of its just honours; with this keyShakspeare unlocked his heart; the melodyOf this small lute..
© William Wordsworth