MONDAY TRAVELS:THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US: LATE AND SOON by William Wordsworth

Happy Monday friends!

This Monday we will read a beautiful poem:

THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US: LATE AND SOON

English poet William Wordsworth: 
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787 when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. That same year he began attending St John's College, Cambridge. He received his BA degree in 1791. In 1813, he and his family, including sister Dorothy, moved to Rydal Mount, Ambleside (between Grasmere and Rydal Water), where he spent the rest of his life

 

Poem:

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune,
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. 

Thoughts:

Simply beautiful. I truly do not understand how a person can create such beauty with their words.

Breath taking.

See you next Monday!

Happy October!