William Wordsworth

England
7 Apr 1770 // 23 Apr 1850
Poet

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Truths that wake,
To perish never.

Intimations of Immortality

Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!

Ode to Duty

Of blessed consolations in distress.

The Excursion
This dull product of a scoffer's pen.

The Excursion
The bane of all that dread the Devil.

The Idiot Boy
So build we up the being that we are.

The Excursion

Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.

On the Power of Sound
Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.

Hart-leap Well

But he is risen, a later star of dawn.

A Morning Exercise
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