William Wordsworth

England
7 Apr 1770 // 23 Apr 1850
Poet

Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there
In happier beauty; more pellucid streams,
An ampler ether, a diviner air,
And fields invested with purpureal gleams.

Laodamia


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