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"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."
~ William Wordsworth, born today, 1770.
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Daunting, inspiring, comforting, terrifying: the writers who can make silence as eloquent as words https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/mar/26/daunting-inspiring-comforting-terrifying-the-writers-who-can-make-silence-as-eloquent-as-words #Culture #Books #Fiction #Poetry #WilliamWordsworth #SamuelTaylorColeridge #JaneAusten
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19 William Wordsworth’s Famous Poems
#WilliamWordsworth #poems #nevermorepoem #poet
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The World Is Too Much With Us by #WilliamWordsworth.
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
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William Wordsworth's letter: "The Law of Copyright" (1838)
https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/76806/pg76806-images.html
#HackerNews #WilliamWordsworth #Copyright1838 #Literature #History #Poetry
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At the Grave of Burns, 1803
Seven Years After His Death
William WordsworthI shiver, Spirit fierce and bold,
At thought of what I now behold:
As vapours breathed from dungeons cold,
Strike pleasure dead,
So sadness comes from out the mould
Where Burns is laid…2/4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #RobertBurns #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #epitaph #WilliamWordsworth
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This week's featured poem on the Grammaticus blog is "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth - a wonderful ode to #daffodils
This poem speaks to me on a deeply intimate level. When I was a boy, a person very dear to me – my great-grandmother – passed away one springtime. Devastated by the sense of loss, I remember spending a lot of time in our backyard garden and sitting among the daffodils, telling them about my sadness. They were very good listeners!
Maybe I was just a weird kid, or maybe I saw in those golden flowers something that Wordsworth also recognized: their power to transform grief into joy.
https://grammaticus.blog/2025/03/05/i-wandered-lonely-wordsworth/
Image credit: Andréas BRUN via Unsplash.
#poem #poetry #spring #williamwordsworth #englishliterature #learningenglish #englishteacher
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Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Westmorland, c.1960 - Abraham Postcard
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Looking from the author Gavin Maxwell's desk (thought to have once belonged to William Wordsworth) in Eilean Ban Lighthouse Keepers Cottage out of the window over the water towards Kyleakin, Isle of #Skye for #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #GavinMaxwell #WilliamWordsworth #History
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Silence
The silence that is in the starry sky.
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#InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #Silence #WilliamWordsworth
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> Though fallen thyself, never to rise again,
Live, and take comfort. Thou hast left behind
Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies;
There's not a breathing of the common wind
That will forget thee; thou hast great allies;
Thy friends are exultations, agonies,
And love, and man's unconquerable mind.https://thirdworldtraveler.com/Haiti/WhatHappened_Farmer_GHRTT.html
#WilliamWordsworth on #Toussaint quoted by #PaulFarmer #CrisisInHaiti #Poetry -
Today's poem:
‘Climbing Snowdon’ from Book 13, The Prelude
- by William Wordsworth#WilliamWordsworth #mountain #snowdon #YrWyddfa #NightHike #landscape #moon #grandeur #spectacle
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Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Westmorland, 1961 - GP Abraham Postcard
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Wordsworth's Bedroom, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, c.1920s - GP Abraham RP Postcard
#Grasmere #WilliamWordsworth #DoveCottage #Postcard #Postcards
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With William Wordsworth's birthday fast approaching (7 April), have a look at my latest listening tips. The programmes I've selected explore everything from his childhood, to ideology and his love of nature.
https://grammaticus.blog/2024/04/05/listening-tips-wordsworth/
#williamwordsworth #literature #englishliterature #poetry #podcasts #radio #listening #listeningskills #learningenglish #englishteacher
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@ThomasKnorra @si_irini @2ndStar @evelynefoersterIch hatte bislang bestenfalls den Namen von #WilliamWordsworth schon mal gelesen:
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Benjamin Haydon has been described as one of the most interesting men of his generation & on 28Dec1818 he records extensively in his journal a dinner hosted for his friends #WilliamWordsworth #JohnKeats #CharlesLamb & others famously referred to as ‘The Immortal Dinner’ #poets
#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History
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Q: How much is the hair of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge worth?
A: £30-40K
(Personally, I 'm fascinated rather than repulsed.)
#literaryheritage #hair #williamwordsworth #samueltaylorcoleridge #wordsworth #coleridge #romantics #poetry
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Good afternoon, Fedi!
The poem for today is "Michael: A Pastoral Poem" by William Wordsworth.
It is the last poem in Volume 2 of the Lyrical Ballads.I have now finished reading the complete Lyrical Ballads!
https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/michael-pastoral-poem
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Good afternoon!
The poem for today is "Remembrance of Collins" by William Wordsworth.
William Collins wrote an ode to his friend and poet James Thomson when he died. Eleven years after writing that ode Collins himself died at the age of 38, disappointed by the reception of his poems and broken in both physical and mental health.
Wordsworth then wrote this poem.
May they all rest in peace.https://www.litscape.com/author/William_Wordsworth/Remembrance_Of_Collins.html
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Good morning!
The poem for today is "The Danish Boy" by William Wordsworth.
https://wordsworth.quillsliteracy.org/the-danish-boy-229/
Wordsworth's note on it says: "These stanzas were designed to introduce a ballad upon the story of a Danish prince who had fled from battle and, for the sake of the valuables about him, was murdered by the inhabitant of a cottage in which he had taken refuge. The house fell under a curse, and the spirit of the youth, it was believed, haunted the valley where the crime had been committed."
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Good morning!
The poem for today is "The Old Cumberland Beggar" by William Wordsworth.
http://www.online-literature.com/wordsworth/lyrical-ballads-vol2/22/
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Good morning!
The poem for ereyesterday is "The pet lamb" by William Wordsworth.
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Roarning!
The poem for ereyesterday is "Nutting" by William Wordsworth.
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Good afternoon!
The poem for yesterday is "The Fountain" by William Wordsworth. It is a nice poem.
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Good morning!
The poem for ereyesterday is "Andrew Jones" by William Wordsworth.
I love this poem with its strong rhythm and rhyme.