William Wordsworth

England
7 Apr 1770 // 23 Apr 1850
Poet

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Of blessed consolations in distress.

The Excursion

On Criticism:

This dull product of a scoffer's pen.

The Excursion

On Devil:

The bane of all that dread the Devil.

The Idiot Boy

On Self-estimation:

So build we up the being that we are.

The Excursion

On Silence:

The silence that is in the starry sky.

Song at the Feast of Broughton Castle

Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.

On the Power of Sound

On Dream:

Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.

Hart-leap Well

But he is risen, a later star of dawn.

A Morning Exercise

On Poet:

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

Resolution and Independence

On Nature:

Thou unassuming commonplace
Of Nature.

To the same Flower
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