William Wordsworth

England
7 Apr 1770 // 23 Apr 1850
Poet

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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

On Cry:

Earth helped him with the cry of blood.

Song at the Feast of Broughton Castle

On Man:

A noticeable man, with large gray eyes.

Stanzas written in Thomson's Castle of Indolence

Monastic brotherhood, upon rock
Aerial.

The Excursion

Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.

The Excursion

On Glory:

Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

Intimations of Immortality

On Help:

Something between a hindrance and a help.

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