William Wordsworth

England
7 Apr 1770 // 23 Apr 1850
Poet

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On Love:

And you must love him, ere to you
He will seem worthy of your love.

A Poet's Epitaph

On Poet:

The harvest of a quiet eye,
That broods and sleeps on his own heart.

A Poet's Epitaph

On Past:

The thought of our past years in me doth breed
Perpetual benediction.

Intimations of Immortality

On Mathematics:

[Mathematics] is an independent world Created out of pure intelligence.

On Respect:

Full twenty times was Peter feared,
For once that Peter was respected.

Peter Bell

On God:

Every gift of noble origin
Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.

These Times strike Monied Worldlings

On Youth:

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!

The Prelude

On Thought:

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.

Lines written in Early Spring

On Brothers:

How fast has brother followed brother,
From sunshine to the sunless land!

Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg

On Woman:

Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast
False fires, that others may be lost.

To the Lady Fleming
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