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"The Sparrows Nest" is a lyric poem written by William Wordsworth at Town End, Grasmere, in 1801.It was first published in the collection Poems in Two Volumes in 1807.. The poem is a moving tribute to Wordsworth's sister Dorothy, recalling their early childhood together in Cockermouth before they were separated following their mother's death in 1778 when he was barely eight years old.
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also sometimes called "Daffodils" [2]) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. [3] It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by an encounter on 15 April 1802 during a walk with his younger sister Dorothy, when they saw a "long belt" of daffodils on the shore of Ullswater in the English Lake District. [4]
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English ...
Soft as a cloud is yon blue Ridge—the Mere 1834 "Soft as a cloud is yon blue Ridge—the Mere" Evening Voluntaries 1835 The leaves that rustled on this oak-crowned hill 1834 "The leaves that rustled on this oak-crowned hill," Evening Voluntaries 1835 The Labourer's Noon-day Hymn 1834 "Up to the throne of God is borne"
Poems, in Two Volumes is a collection of poetry by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, published in 1807. [1] It contains many notable poems, including: "Resolution and Independence" "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (sometimes anthologized as "The Daffodils") "My Heart Leaps Up" "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" "Ode to Duty" "The Solitary ...
Chemists at Oregon State University created the world's most flawless blue pigment and say the groundbreaking development was pretty much an accident. When the perfect color came into being, the ...
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. [2]
William Shuter, Portrait of William Wordsworth, 1798. The earliest known portrait of Wordsworth, painted in the year he wrote the first drafts of "The Lucy poems" [1] The Lucy poems are a series of five poems composed by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) between 1798 and 1801.