William Wordsworth

England
7 Apr 1770 // 23 Apr 1850
Poet

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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

On Nature:

As in the eye of Nature he has lived,
So in the eye of Nature let him die!

The Old Cumberland Beggar

On Live (To):

As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.

Resolution and Independence

On Opportunity:

Turning, for them who pass, the common dust
Of servile opportunity to gold.

Desultory Stanza

On Nature:

There 's something in a flying horse,
There 's something in a huge balloon.

Peter Bell
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