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!
Wordsworth starts with a complaint about consumerism, common among Romantic poets. “The world” here refers to the material as opposed to the spiritual world, or the human world as opposed to nature. Society places too much focus on the material world and inward upon itself rather than towards the outside world. Wordsworth also implies that us, humans, are a huge burden to the world and cannot coexist peacefully. Nature suffers by the hands of humans. 
 Late and soon imply indefiniteness; humanity’s selfishness is old news.
The world is too much with us...