Poems Of The Week

[jazzy_dave]

This year is the 250th anniversary of his birth so here are a couple of poems by Wordsworth.


My Heart Leaps Up
William Wordsworth - 1770-1850


My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.


A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
William Wordsworth


A slumber did my spirit seal;
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.

No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,
With rocks, and stones, and trees.
This poem is in the public domain.