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William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

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Even thus last night, and two nights more I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep, by any stealth: So do not let me wear to-night away. Without thee what is all the morning's wealth? Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!

Day, Dream, Fresh, Morning, Mother, Wear

Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance.

Distance, Dizzy, Eye, Foaming, Ice, Turbulence

Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

Book, Books, Influence, Lovers, Past, Type

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

Behinds, Life, Poetry, Remains, Sweet

Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.

Book, Loneliness, Lonely, Pleasure, Sighed

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Flower, Freedom, Love, Unfold

Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

Faith, Greatness, Hope, Know, Transcendence, Transcendent

In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . .

Bird, Flower, Flowers, Seat, Sweet

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

Dark, Infinity, Nature, Sad, Shares

The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a love that had no need of a remoter charm by thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.

Charm, Eye, Love, Passion, Supplied

This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Beauty, Bright, Domes, Garment, Lying, Morning

While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.

Blest, Certainties, Life, Love, Love Is, Soul

Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.

Cleave, Gentle, Glory, Happiness, Mild

And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long, Roaming the illimitable waters round; Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned. And end my days upon the peaceful flood - To break my dream the vessel reached its bound; And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

Dream, Fancy, Home, Stood, Strong, Thought

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude

Acceptance, Human, Men, Nature, Reflection, Solitude

Rest and be thankful.

Being Thankful, Rest, Thankful, Thankfulness

As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.

Art, Arts, Fate, Strong

I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man.

Air, Life, Light, Men, Ocean, Round

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! The 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.

Bosom, Flower, Given, Heart, Lay, Sleep

The unconquerable pang of despised love.

Despised, Love, Pang, Unconquerable

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