William Wordsworth

England
7 Apr 1770 // 23 Apr 1850
Poet

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A brotherhood of venerable trees.

Sonnet composed at Castle
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
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