William Wordsworth
England
7 Apr 1770 // 23 Apr 1850
Poet
7 Apr 1770 // 23 Apr 1850
Poet
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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
The Borderers
The soft blue sky did never melt
Into his heart; he never felt
The witchery of the soft blue sky!
Into his heart; he never felt
The witchery of the soft blue sky!
Peter Bell
The fretful stir
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.
Lines completed a few miles above Tintern Abbey
The common growth of Mother Earth
Suffices me, her tears, her mirth,
Her humblest mirth and tears.
Suffices me, her tears, her mirth,
Her humblest mirth and tears.
Peter Bell
One in whom persuasion and belief
Had ripened into faith, and faith become
A passionate intuition.
Had ripened into faith, and faith become
A passionate intuition.
The Excursion
Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;
Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,
Frozen by distance.
Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,
Frozen by distance.
Address to Kilchurn Castle
That kill the bloom before its time,
And blanch, without the owner's crime,
The most resplendent hair.
And blanch, without the owner's crime,
The most resplendent hair.
Lament of Mary Queen of Scots
Oft on the dappled turf at ease
I sit, and play with similes,
Loose type of things through all degrees.
I sit, and play with similes,
Loose type of things through all degrees.
To the same Flower
That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
Lines completed a few miles above Tintern Abbey
A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye;
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
Half hidden from the eye;
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
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